Thousands in Hong Kong Protest Cleaver Attack on Journalist
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Thousands of people took to Hong Kong’s streets to show support for press freedom and to demand police step up efforts to catch assailants who critically injured a former newspaper editor.
Kevin Lau, former chief editor of the Ming Pao Daily News, was ambushed on Feb. 26 as he got out of his car near a restaurant in Sai Wan Ho. An attacker slashed him with a meat cleaver, leaving Lau’s internal organs exposed and damaging nerves in his leg, the South China Morning Post reported on Feb. 28. Lau, 49, is now chief operating officer at a unit of Media Chinese International Ltd, which owns Ming Pao.