Hong Kong police complain to newspaper over cartoon showing riot squad called to school to deal with unruly pupils

A Hong Kong artist who became embroiled in a controversy over a newspaper cartoon that showed riot police being called to a school to handle unruly pupils on Wednesday denied he meant to criticise the force and insisted he only wanted to ask teachers to be more lenient on disciplinary matters.

The row erupted after the force wrote a letter of complaint to Chinese-language newspaper Ming Pao on Tuesday that voiced “strong concern” about what it said was “misleading” content in the cartoon by Zunzi.