Hong Kong Police Vow to Investigate Protester Sex Assault Claim
- Student tells university event she was attacked after arrest
- Police say they’ll reach out to woman to hear her story
The shadows of riot police are cast on the ground during a protest in Hong Kong.
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Hong Kong police pledged to investigate a protester’s allegation that she was sexually assaulted by officers, after she dramatically shared her story at a university event.
Police responded after the student aired the claim Thursday at a town hall-style event at Chinese University of Hong Kong. The woman, Sonia Ng, said she was assaulted in a darkened body-search room at a detention center near the mainland Chinese border on Aug. 31 and wasn’t the only one who “suffered sexual violence.”