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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The injured woman had sent the authority a legal letter over her records. Photo: Felix Wong

Published: 9:44pm, 9 Sep 2019Updated: 10:29pm, 9 Sep 2019

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.

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”.

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.

The woman was hurt during a protest in Tsim Sha Tsui on August 11. Photo: AFP

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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