On Oct. 17, Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam made an online program to discuss issues with the public, which was watched by more than 400,000 people.

While Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam may eventually yield to demands that she resign, that will do little to remove the underlying frustrations that sparked the violence, Chan said.

Faced with public pressure, Hong Kong’s top official, Carrie Lam, suspended the bill indefinitely but stopped short of scrapping the bill as protesters demanded.

(DALE DE LA REY/AFP/Getty Images) Public outcry against the police’s actions pressured the city’s leader Carrie Lam to announce on June 15 that the bill would be indefinitely suspended and all proceedings canceled.

Hong Kong’s pro-Beijing chief executive Carrie Lam said last week that passing the bill was a priority for the government, and the bill will be presented to the committee on May 27.

Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam was one of the two jokers in the deck.

Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam reiterated that her government would not set up an independent commission of inquiry to investigate police actions—a core demand that protesters have continually asserted since June.

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam has not ruled out the possibility her administration could invoke emergency powers. More protests are planned across Hong Kong in coming weeks, including a general strike on Monday.

Protesters in Hong Kong have demanded that the city's leader, Carrie Lam, also chosen by a pro-Beijing committee, step down, though that demand has evolved into a broader call for fully democratic elections.

On June 15, Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam announced a decision to “infinitely suspend” the bill amid public pressure.

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam, who has kept a low profile over the past few days, bowed to public pressure and suspended the bill a day after the violent protests but stopped short of a full withdrawal and rejected repeated calls to step down.

Hong Kong's Beijing-appointed leader Carrie Lam, eventually caved in after some of the worst violence seen in decades on the city's streets, with police firing tear gas and rubber bullets.

Lam, the city's leader, on March 31.

Sham pointed out that CHRF is facing considerable danger for organizing protests, “not because our enemy is [Hong Kong leader] Carrie Lam, but the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).”

Among other demands, protesters want the complete withdrawal of the extradition bill, which is currently suspended; the resignation of Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam; an independent investigation into police brutality during the protests; and all charges

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam has so far refused to concede to a demand by the protesters to form an independent commission to investigate police actions on June 12. "Policymakers should be clear: We do not have a China problem," Gallagher said.

Despite rally organizers not having permission to march, the park could not accommodate the crowd and many headed west toward the city's financial center, chanting for the city's Beijing-backed leader, Carrie Lam, to step down.

Hong Kong's leader Carrie Lam canceled a meeting with U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, the highest profile U.S. politician to visit the city since the unrest started, Cruz said on Saturday.

A proposed extradition law from Hong Kong chief executive Carrie Lam would have allowed the removal of persons in transit and political dissidents from the city to mainland China to face an Orwellian system without fair trials or judicial independence

Hong Kong's embattled leader Carrie Lam on Tuesday did not rule out asking Beijing for help to end the unrest, with Hong Kong's economy hit hard by the protests and facing its first recession in a decade.

This has led commentators to suggest that Beijing was forcing the city’s top leader Carrie Lam to take full responsibility for the fallout after Hong Kong police fired tear gas, rubber bullets, and bean bags at tens of thousands of unarmed protesters

After gathering peacefully in the Central business district, the teachers marched on the Government House residence of Hong Kong's embattled leader Carrie Lam, chanting "Hong Kong police know the law, they break the law."

Carrie Lam, the city's Beijing-backed leader, has said the face mask ban was necessary to end the violence by militant activists. But it has been criticized by human rights groups and the United Nations.

British Call Earlier in the week, British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab called Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam to relay concerns over the ongoing protests in the former British colony.

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam has been at pains to reassure people that there are adequate safeguards to any extradition request, but several senior judges have expressed concern.

“We believe [Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam] cannot simply drag her feet and hope that all the problems go away.” Organizers said that about 120,000 took part in the Mong Kok march, while police said that only 4,200 people turned out for the event.

Although the city’s leader Carrie Lam in early September announced that the government would withdraw the extradition bill that triggered the mass protests, this has not assuaged protesters’ concerns.

The protests against a now suspended extradition bill, which would have seen people sent for trial in Communist Party controlled mainland courts, have expanded to demands for greater democracy and the resignation of Hong Kong's leader Carrie Lam.

Thousands took to Hong Kong streets to protest against the laws over the weekend, but this did not deter Hong Kong’s Chief Executive Carrie Lam, who said her government would make no further amendments before introducing the legislation to the city’s

However, Hong Kong's Chief Executive Carrie Lam said her government would make no further amendments before introducing the laws to the city's parliament.