1/ To understand Hong Kong's recent struggles, it's important to understand Carrie Lam's origins and rise to power. @a_roantree and @jamespomfret tell her story 👇 reut.rs/3o7cfuk 2/ Lam was born in British-ruled Hong Kong in 1957, the daughter of a Shanghai immigrant and a Hong Kong mother with no formal education. Lam’s bunk bed doubled as a desk; she used to stand on the lower tier and rest her schoolbooks on top.

The Lais’ wrenching decision to uproot their family, which @Reuters has documented for the past five months, provides a glimpse of the deep societal wounds that mass emigration could inflict on Hong Kong reut.rs/3aznBn4 1/10 Unlike protesters and activists who have fled Hong Kong facing charges related to the anti-government demonstrations, the Lais are a typical middle-class, politically moderate family in the city 2/10

Judge Les Hayes once sentenced a single mother to 496 days behind bars for failing to pay traffic tickets. The sentence was so stiff it exceeded the jail time Alabama allows for negligent homicide reut.rs/2ZkVOjb 1/7 Marquita Johnson’s three children were cast into foster care while she was incarcerated. One daughter was molested, another was physically abused 2/7