Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam, flanked by a dozen of ministers in her government, announced she has exercised a local emergency law to ban masks in the vexed city.
Lam told a press conference that the decision was made after a special meeting the morning on Oct. 4. She explained that the decision to exercise the emergency ordinance and enact an anti-mask law was not easy, but necessary given there was an “escalation of violence” recently, and reaching an “alarming level” in recent days.
