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Hong Kong protests: police given medical reports of woman with eye injury despite her bid to block move
- Police earlier obtained a search warrant after woman and her family ignored their efforts to get hold of her medical records
- Force now reviewing information but statement from the witness is most important, senior officer says
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Hong Kong police have been given the medical records of a young woman who suffered a serious eye injury during a violent protest despite her attempt to legally block the move.
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Police earlier obtained a search warrant from a court after the woman and her family ignored their efforts to get hold of her medical reports. It was later reported that the woman had issued a legal letter through her lawyers to the Hospital Authority to block the police’s bid.
The woman has become an icon of the anti-government protests that have roiled Hong Kong for more than three months and has featured on posters and slogans as a testament to “police brutality”.
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Protesters say she was hit by a police beanbag round during a violent showdown in Tsim Sha Tsui on August 11, but the force is not taking the blame pending an investigation. There had been suggestions she was hit by a projectile from a protester’s catapult.
Steve Li Kwai-wah, senior superintendent of the force’s organised crime and triad bureau, told a press conference on Monday that police had received a similar letter from the woman but that the authority had passed over the records. Officers were now reviewing the information.
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