Hong Kong Design Institute principal Ong Lay Lian was sent to the hospital as a dialogue session with students and protesters ended in chaos.

Dissatisfied with Ong, the students held up the ambulance for almost an hour before she was allowed to leave for the hospital.

A group of students and some masked protesters in black surrounded Ong at around noon yesterday, questioning why the school has not released key CCTV footage of 15-year-old girl Chan Yin-lam's last moments on campus, before she went missing and was found dead naked in the sea last month.

Some students asked Ong to condemn the police like Chinese University vice chancellor and president Rocky Tuan Sung-chi has, but she refused to do so.

Students became unhappy with the dialogue and started to scold her. Ong denies that she had covered up the case and teared up as she was startled.

She said she was not feeling well and an ambulance was dispatched. A large group of students then surrounded and blocked the ambulance as Ong was examined by paramedics at about 2pm. Some pounded on the ambulance and swore at her, demanding Ong get off.

Paramedics said her heartbeat was fast and she was emotionally unstable, suggesting that she needed to be sent to the hospital. They asked the students not to obstruct the ambulance, which finally left at around 2.55pm.

Vice principal Joseph Wong continued the dialogue with students. Wong reiterated that the school did not cover up the case, and said releasing the footage requires considerations regarding privacy issues. He said handing the case to the Coroner's Court is the best way to find out the truth.

Chan joined the anti-fugitive bill protests in June but stopped going in July as she thought the spirit of the protests had changed, her mother revealed earlier.

Although Chan's mother clarified that her daughter had indeed committed suicide, some people continued to doubt her death and questioned her behavior as campus security footage showed she left her belongings at school before walking barefoot to the waterfront.

Jane Cheung

The High Court has limited the breadth of an interim injunction on the release of information about police officers.

Police announced the revision late on Monday night after the court moved on information about officers being given out when it was "intended or likely to intimidate, molest, harass, threaten, pester or interfere" with them.

The High Court had last Friday granted an interim injunction to last until November 8 than banned people from revealing details about officers and their families.

That came after the Department of Justice applied for the injunction to curb doxxing aimed at the force.

"Since June, police officers' personal information has been unlawfully disclosed and widely published on the internet," the police said in the note on the revision.

Such information included schools their children attend, it said, and "officers were affected by different levels of nuisance and intimidation." It said some officers had even "received letters threatening to hurt them brutally."

The tightening also came after Eric Cheung Tat-ming, a principal lecturer at the University of Hong Kong's Faculty of Law, criticized the original coverage of the injunction as too wide. It could lead to media being in trouble when photos show faces of police and news about officers is reported, he said.

Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data Stephen Wong Kai-yi had also said that doxxing had become a "weapon" and should be stopped by all legal means.

jane.cheung@singtaonewscorp.com