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HONG KONG: Hong Kong authorities on Sunday (Jul 2) warned residents against mourning a man who killed himself after stabbing a policeman, saying that encouraging such memorials was the same as "supporting terrorism". Police had described the attacker, who stabbed an officer before fatally wounding himself on Thursday, as politically "radicalised". Advertisement Advertisement Hong Kong has become a deeply polarised city, especially since the huge, often violent pro-democracy protests of 2019. Many residents chafe under Beijing's increasingly authoritarian rule. Some tried to pay tribute to the attacker by laying flowers and observing a moment of silence on Friday, prompting the...
