Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam has consistently framed the protests as “riots,” and has declined to address the protesters’ further demands.

Future Following public and international outcry over the police use of force on June 12, Hong Kong’s leader Carrie Lam (no relation) announced that the bill would be indefinitely suspended. But Hongkongers were not satisfied.

While city leader Carrie Lam tried to assure Hongkongers on May 26 that the law will only target “a handful of people” involved in terrorism or subversion, Wilson Leung from Hong Kong's Progressive Lawyers Group said the claims were “absolutely wrong”

Change in Tactics While Hong Kong’s Chief Executive Carrie Lam claimed that she would listen to the people’s concerns and even held a community dialogue in late September, the Hong Kong police increased the use of force since Oct. 1, the 70th founding

But the international media disaster forced Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam to suspend the extradition bill indefinitely, as she tearfully described going through an emotional period of “self-reflection,” and asked for healing of the rifts in society

When asked whether Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam had done enough to prevent the violence, Tong told local media that he would withhold his comment since he isn't a Hong Kong citizen.

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam, saying she had heard people "loud and clear," suspended the extradition bill, which would allow people to be sent to mainland China for trial, but stopped short of protesters' demands to scrap it.

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam announced on Oct. 4 that she would invoke the colonial-era Emergency Regulation Ordinance to enact the ban, without discussion or voting by Hong Kong’s legislature. to quell protests now in their 18th straight week.

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam has repeatedly stressed Hong Kong respects media and other freedoms but has so far refused to give an explanation for denying Mallet entry. By James Pomfret

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam has repeatedly stressed Hong Kong respects media and other freedoms, but has so far refused to give an explanation for Mallet's de facto expulsion.

Hong Kong's leader Carrie Lam says extradition laws are necessary to prevent Hong Kong from becoming a haven for fugitive criminals.

In a press conference on Nov. 11, Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam labelled protesters the “enemy of the people,” and vowed they “will never win.”

After huge street protests, Hong Kong’s chief executive, Carrie Lam, suspended the proposal, but made it clear that it was only being delayed.

Hong Kong's Chief Executive Carrie Lam also issued a statement expressing "deep sorrow" for Zheng's death.

Hong Kong’s chief executive Carrie Lam tried to defend her government in the face of public condemnation over the brutal crackdown of peaceful demonstrators who oppose the proposed amendments to the extradition law.

Lam, the city’s top leader.

Carrie Lam continues to inflame the situation by her refusal to completely withdraw the Extradition Bill, and her refusal to set up an independent investigation into the repeated failings by police,” Amnesty International stated.

Lam.

"Every time we come out and stand up, problems continue to arise afterward," Wong said, referring to the protesters' dissatisfaction with responses from law enforcement and Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam.

In particular, Li thinks Zhang's speech was directed at Carrie Lam, telling her not to stray from Beijing's political line.

In 2020, it sanctioned 20 CCP and Hong Kong officials, including Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam and a member of the CCP’s powerful Politburo, primarily over the regime’s crushing of Hong Kong’s freedoms and persecution of Uyghurs in the region of Xinjiang

Concern Over Heavy-Handed Response Earlier the same day, embattled Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam ruled out making any concessions to pro-democracy protesters in the face of escalating violence, while condemning “rioters” for their actions, including throwing

Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam came under fire two days earlier for leaving open the possibility of invoking the Emergency Regulations Ordinance, a law that could give her sweeping authority to make arrests, censor publications, enact new laws,

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam holds a press conference to address a controversial extradition bill at the government headquarters in Hong Kong on July 9, 2019.

The demonstrators are demanding Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam to step down and to scrap a proposed legislation under which some suspects could be sent to mainland China, where critics say they could face torture and unfair or politically charged trials.

Lam a day earlier.

During the anti-extradition protests in Hong Kong last year, Ho published a full-page article titled “Wait and See,” which criticized Chief Executive Carrie Lam for being inefficient in “stopping violence and preventing chaos.”

During the July 29 press conference, Yang Guang, the Office spokesperson, denounced Hong Kong protesters as “radicals” who “deliberately create violent incidents,” while voicing firm support for the city’s current administration under leader Carrie Lam

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his British and German counterparts, some 11 European Union envoys met Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam to formally protest.

In the same statement CECC points out that Beijing officials sought to interfere with the outcome of the already highly restricted election by pressuring Election Committee members to vote for Carrie Lam.