Hong Kong suspended its subway network as street battles raged after the imposition of emergency measures to quell protests
HONG KONG—Street battles raged across Hong Kong and the city’s subway operator suspended its entire network late Friday as the government’s move to invoke emergency measures and ban people wearing masks at protests triggered a backlash.
The city’s leader, Carrie Lam, invoked the British colonial-era law for the first time in 52 years, saying it was designed as a deterrent to social unrest that posed a serious public danger. The ban on people wearing masks at public gatherings and unlawful assemblies would be punishable by...
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