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Hong Kong protest leader Jimmy Sham ‘attacked with hammers’


17 October 2019  

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AGENCIES: The leader of one of Hong Kong’s largest pro-democracy groups has been taken to hospital after being assaulted.

Photographs on social media showed Jimmy Sham of the Civil Human Rights Front (CHRF) lying in the street, covered in blood.

Afterward, the activist said he “remained committed to the ideal of peaceful non-violence”.

Mass protests in support of greater democracy in the territory, which began in June, show no sign of abating.

The attack on Sham came hours after the territory’s leader suspended her annual address after being heckled in parliament.

The CHRF said he was set upon by a group of up to five hammer-wielding men in the Mong Kok district of the Kowloon peninsula, and left with head injuries.

It added that he was conscious as he was taken to hospital, and was in a stable condition.

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