For two nights last weekend, Hong Kong lawmaker Lam Cheuk-Ting slept on a fold-out mattress on the floor of his office in the Legislative Council and ate congee delivered by his staff.

One of seven pro-democracy lawmakers who faced arrest for disrupting a legislative meeting in May to stop a bill on allowing extraditions to mainland China, Lam challenged police to enter the complex and arrest him.

They never did, and he voluntarily attended a court hearing on Monday without being detained like the others.