Hong Kong protests: Carrie Lam rejects claims she has lost control

Territory’s leader condemns violence, rejects protesters’ demands and vows to ‘restore law and order’

Hong Kong’s embattled leader, Carrie Lam, has condemned renewed violent protests that erupted over the weekend but insisted that she would not give in to activists’ political demands.

As the former British colony’s biggest political crisis since the handover to China continued into its 12th week, Lam denied on Tuesday that she had lost control of the situation and vowed to tackle the unrest and restore law and order.

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