China insisted Tuesday it alone held the authority to rule on constitutional matters in Hong Kong, as it condemned a decision by the city's high court to overturn a ban on face masks worn by pro-democracy protesters.
The move was seen as a watershed legal moment for the city since its 1997 return by Britain to China -- but has been largely symbolic. "No other institution has the right to make judgements or decisions," Zang said, according to a state media report posted on the NPC's website. "The Hong Kong government is trying very hard to put the situation under control," China's ambassador to Britain, Liu Xiaoming, said on Monday.
This week police laid siege at a university campus where protesters -- some armed with bows and homemade catapults to fire bricks -- were holed up.
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