Video of Apparent Beating of Protester in Hong Kong Stirs Anger
Source: NY Times
HONG KONG — In a video that quickly transfixed and outraged many in Hong Kong and beyond, a group of police officers appeared to take a pro-democracy demonstrator into a dark corner early Wednesday morning and kick him repeatedly while his hands were bound.
The Civic Party, one of the main pro-democracy political parties in Hong Kong, identified the man as Ken Tsang, a party member and volunteer social worker who specializes in helping street children. Dennis Kwok, a Civic Party lawmaker and barrister, said that he was representing Mr. Tsang and that his client had been taken to Ruttonjee Hospital here for a full examination because he feared that he had suffered internal injuries.
Mr. Kwok said that the police had also “slapped around” Mr. Tsang, and that at some point Mr. Tsang had also been struck repeatedly with an object, possibly a police baton. “He has severe bruises to his face, and he has also been kicked in the back and in the stomach,” Mr. Kwok said.
A team of a dozen pro-democracy lawyers has met with “10 or 15” of the 45 people arrested by the police during the pre-dawn demonstration, and “five or six” of those who had spoken with lawyers also complained of having been slapped or punched. While some of these additional demonstrators have also requested full medical exams at hospitals, none initially appears to have been injured to the same extent as Mr. Tsang, Mr. Kwok said.
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I guess the Chinese government has its version of the purge. Every few decades, when pro-democracy sentiment starts to bubble, the government violently puts down the opposition. In the U.S., we privatize our censorship with corporate media highlighting a handful of Tea Party protesters to help cultivate the Tea Party while generally ignoring large demonstrations for civil rights, climate change and immigration reform.
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