Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam defends law enforcement actions after protesters prompted an airport shutdown with calls to investigate alleged police brutality
Hong Kong's Chief Executive Carrie Lam gestures during a news conference in Hong Kong, China August 13, 2019.
The abrupt closure came 10 weeks into a crisis that has seen millions of people take to Hong Kong's streets in the biggest challenge to Chinese rule of the semi-autonomous city since its 1997 handover from Britain. "The situation in Hong Kong in the past week has made me very worried that we have reached this dangerous situation."
Frank Filser, 53, was struggling to reschedule a flight back to Germany to visit his father who has terminal cancer."They fight for Hong Kong and that's their view," he said.Only a handful of protesters remained at the airport and it was unclear how many would respond to calls on social media to return later in the day.
The demonstrators have accused police of causing the injury by firing a bean-bag round, and cite the case as evidence of what they say has been an excessive and disproportionate response by police to their protests.The protests began in opposition to a bill that would have allowed extraditions to the mainland, but quickly evolved into a broader bid to reverse a slide of rights and freedoms in the southern Chinese city.
"Hong Kong's radical demonstrators have repeatedly used extremely dangerous tools to attack police officers, which already constitutes a serious violent crime, and also shows the first signs of terrorism emerging," said Yang Guang, spokesman for the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of the State Council.
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