Fliers printed with the names and photos of prominent Hong Kong protesters, as well as insults directed at them, fluttered down onto a Sham Shui Po street at around 8pm last night.
After images circulated online of the black-and-white A4 fliers, HK01 reporters visited the scene and found some of the papers strewn about on a side street near Yen Chow and Yu Chau streets. Though the fliers were apparently tossed from a nearby building, it was unclear which building they came from.
“[These protesters] are as useless as dead people,” one of the insults printed on the fliers read.
Some of the insults were written in simplified Chinese, the writing system used on the mainland.
The activists mentioned in the fliers included one of the men arrested for tossing the national flag into the sea in Tsim Sha Tsui, the Hong Kong Baptist University student leader who was arrested for buying laser pointers, an ex-president of the Hong Kong University Student Union, and a social commentator and former student activist, among others.
Police told Coconuts HK that they had not been notified of the incident.
It was unclear what connection the fliers had to Sham Shui Po, aside from the Baptist University student who bought laser points having been arrested there. However, the neighborhood has recently become a flashpoint, with protesters returning there multiple times over the past few days to protest outside the police station there, the SCMP reports.
At least four people were arrested in relation to a protest there last night, with local residents booing police as they conducted a sweep of the area.
Yesterday’s incident wasn’t the first time pieces of paper have been thrown from a Sham Shui Po rooftop. Last December, a self-described cryptocurrency mogul threw reams of HK$100 bills from a building as a promotional stunt, sparking a frenzy in the street below.
He was arrested the next day, and sentenced to 10 days in jail last month.
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