HK LAWYER ATTACKED FOR DISAPPROVING VIOLENCE, VANDALISM
Hong Kong:
Since the social unrest in Hong Kong started in
June 2019,
Hong Kong lawyer Chan
Tze-chin has heard from the news about numerous cases of “mob lynching” of people who hold different views with the rioters, but has never thought he would become a victim.
Mr Chan was walking to a sports club for his weekly golf class on May 24 when he saw a group of black-clad men smashing the window panes of a clothes shop in Causeway Bay. The busy shopping area was swarming with radicals on that day, who were protesting against a draft decision at China’s top legislature on establishing and improving the legal system and enforcement mechanisms for the HK Special Administrative Region to safeguard national security at the state level.
Out of indignation at the violence and vandalism, Mr Chan blurted out: “Stay there. The Police will arrest you.”
He never expected these words would incite such a savage level of violence against him.
“Rioters knocked me to the ground, punched and kicked me and battered and stabbed me with umbrellas,” he said.