The man responsible for organizing an anti-triad protest in Yuen Long last month was attacked by a group of masked men on Thursday afternoon, just hours after another protest leader was similarly attacked.
Max Chung told reporters last night that he was attacked by four men wielding metal rods and umbrellas while he was giving an interview to a reporter near the Lam Tsuen River in Tai Po, New Territories.
Chung said that he and Jeffrey Cheng, a reporter from Truth Media Hong Kong, were walking slowly towards Tai Wo MTR station when the felt they were being followed.
When they turned around, they saw the four men, who began to attack Chung.
He said he crouched down and wrapped his arms around his head in a defensive position, with his arms and back taking most of the beating, and his head only getting struck once. Cheng, meanwhile, suffered injuries to his mouth and arm.
The four men fled the scene before police arrived.
“It was organized and premeditated,” Chung said of the attack. “It was definitely related to the fact I was the organizer of the Yuen Long protest.”
He also said he didn’t trust the Hong Kong police to investigate his case, and that he would be launching a “civil criminal investigation,” and would announce details later.
Addressing the police, he said, “If you really think we’re cockroaches, I’m sorry, I’ve said this before, the dinosaurs are all gone, but the cockroaches survived.”
Chung was the person responsible for organizing a rally in response to the vicious attack at Yuen Long MTR on July 21, when a group of men in white shirts — some with links to organized crime — attacked anti-government protesters returning home from a rally on Hong Kong Island. So far 30 people have been arrested in connection with the attack, of which only four have been formally charged
Though Chung’s rally was banned by police, thousands of protesters still marched through Yuen long anyway.
Reports of the attack on Chung came just a few hours after it was reported that Jimmy Sham — the leader of the Civil Human Rights Front, another group that has organized major rallies — was attacked by two masked men wielding a baseball bat and metal rod while he was having lunch with a friend. Sham wasn’t injured in the attack, but his friend was sent to hospital with two severe bruises on his left arm.
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