HONG KONG—Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam on Feb. 18 increased a relief fund to tackle the impact of the coronavirus outbreak as she urged residents to accept the government's quarantine plans for returning passengers from a cruise ship stranded in Japan.

A protester holds posters showing Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam before a rally against a controversial extradition law proposal in Hong Kong on June 9, 2019.

"We question Chief Executive Lam's stated commitment to protecting the rights of Hong Kong residents, and call on authorities to ensure due process," Pompeo said on Friday, referring to the city’s leader Carrie Lam.

The city’s leader Carrie Lam told reporters on Tuesday that “it would not be right for the Chief Executive to give an opinion on the actual operation on the ground.”

HONG KONG—Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam rejected calls from a medical union on Jan. 31 to close the border with mainland China to contain the spread of the new coronavirus, and urged health staff not to go through with a threatened strike.

One of the five demands—to formally withdraw the extradition bill—was announced last week by embattled leader Carrie Lam, but protesters are angry about her failure to call an independent inquiry into accusations of police brutality against demonstrators

Shortly after Carrie Lam threatened punishment under the National Security Law for participation in Hong Kong elections, Trump signed a law to revoke Hong Kong’s special privileges.

Last week, more than 60 British lawmakers sent a joint letter to British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, urging him to make it a “diplomatic priority” to secure the return of the twelve to Hong Kong by contacting Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam and China’

The extradition bill has since been scrapped, but at the time, Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam had only announced that discussions of the bill would be suspended at the local legislature.

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam held a press conference on Jan. 25 to announce a set of measures to stem the virtual outbreak. Lam raised the response level to “Emergency Response Level,” the highest of a three-tier system in Hong Kong.

The territory's chief executive, Carrie Lam, announced Wednesday she was withdrawing the proposed bill. She said Hong Kong officials would talk with the public about other possible changes.

“Carrie Lam has not responded to our five demands and so she has not been able to quell people’s anger [against the bill] ...

One umbrella had the words “Free Hong Kong” and “[Hong Kong leader] Carrie Lam, Step Down” written on it.  One note read: “It has been one year. Hongkongers have never forgotten about you.

"I hope the rest of the world will follow the example of the 155 Parliamentarians from 18 countries who yesterday issued an open letter to Carrie Lam, and unite to show solidarity with Hong Kong's people," he said in a statement.

Hong Kong chief executive Carrie Lam repeatedly defended the need for Beijing’s national security law in Hong Kong during her weekly press conference on June 23.

Carrie Lam, Hong Kong's chief executive, speaks during a news conference in Hong Kong on July 2, 2019.

RSF warned that journalists covering Hong Kong’s mass protest movement against Beijing’s encroachment could be “prosecutable under the national security law as an act of terrorism” since Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam often referred to the movement as “terrorism

In April, a source close to the Hong Kong Liaison Office, the representative office of Beijing in Hong Kong, told the Chinese-language Epoch Times that the extradition bill is "a political task that the central government has commanded Carrie Lam to carry

Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam said at her weekly briefing earlier on Jan. 26 that future lockdowns will involve fewer streets and be more sudden than the Jordan one.

Lam, and 10 other Chinese and Hong Kong officials involved in undermining the territory's freedoms. 

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam suspended the bill, which would allow criminal suspects in the former British colony to be extradited to mainland China for trial, but some activists are calling on her to axe it altogether.

Lam earlier in the day.

Last week, the United States imposed sanctions on Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam and 10 other Chinese and Hong Kong officials over their roles in subverting the city’s freedoms through implementing the new law.

Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam holds a press conference at the government headquarters in Hong Kong on July 9, 2019.

A day later, the city's chief executive Carrie Lam postponed the upcoming legislative elections for a year, citing COVID-19 concerns. U.S.

Lee said the local pro-Beijing government, headed by Carrie Lam, intended to show its loyalty to the Chinese Communist Party by slapping “cooked up” charges against them.

(Tyrone Siu/Reuters) Lam invoked a colonial-era emergency law to carry out the mask ban on Oct. 4, citing “serious public danger.”

(Philip Fong/AFP via Getty Images) On Wednesday, Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam told reporters that anyone from mainland China who enters the territory will face a mandatory, 14-day quarantine.

HONG KONG—Hong Kong's chief executive Carrie Lam has asked to meet with the city's university students, her office said on July 4, as the embattled leader tries to fend off pressure from a month-long political crisis.

On July 31, Hong Kong’s pro-Beijing leader Carrie Lam invoked emergency powers granted under the colonial-era Emergency Regulations Ordinance to delay the LegCo election previously scheduled for Sept. 6 by a year.