Men Armed With Sledgehammers, Knife Attack Chinese Dissident Paper
13th April 2021
Armed thugs in Hong Kong broke into the printing facility of an anti-government newspaper to destroy its equipment, the latest example of what the paper says is the Chinese Communist Party’s crackdown on press freedom in the city state.
The Epoch Times, a paper founded by Chinese dissidents in 2000, said four intruders forced their way into the paper’s Hong Kong printing plant during the early hours of April 12. The intrusion marks the fifth time vandals attacked the printing facility since it was established in 2006.
Surveillance footage shows masked attackers, one of them armed with a knife, wielding sledge hammers to destroy printing equipment. The intruders scuttled away after two minutes, stealing a computer in the process.