HK leader says campus protesters must surrender
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam says protesters holed up in a university campus must surrender themselves to end the three-day standoff against police peacefully. – EPA pic, November 19, 2019.
HONG Kong’s chief executive said today that protesters occupying a city centre university had to surrender if the three-day stand-off was to be resolved peacefully. In her first public comments on the siege at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Carrie Lam said she believed around 100 people remained at the campus, surrounded by police who were trying to quell the unrest.
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