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| Hong Kong activist stabbed handing out leaflets at 'Lennon Wall' | |
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| A man handing out leaflets for a Hong Kong pro-democracy protest was attacked by a knife-wielding assailant who slashed his neck and abdomen, days after a leading activist was left bloodied in another street attack. | |
| The injured 19-year-old, wearing black clothes and a black face mask, was stabbed on Saturday near one of the large “Lennon Walls” that have sprung up around the city during months of demonstrations, police said. | |
| Local media images showed the man had been severely injured in the afternoon incident in the north-eastern Tai Po district. Footage posted on social media showed another man holding a knife shortly after the attack and shouting: “Hong Kong is part of China ... [You] messed up Hong Kong.” | |
| Hong Kong's Lennon walls - in pictures | Hong Kong's Lennon walls - in pictures |
| The victim was conscious when he was rushed to hospital for surgery. Police confirmed a 22-year-old man had been arrested. | |
| “The man suddenly rushed to my friend and slashed [him] in the neck. Then my friend ran away towards this direction. After that he fell down and was stabbed in the abdomen with a knife,” an associate of the injured man told media at the scene. | |
| Plastered in colourful sticky notes, posters and slogans, Lennon Walls have appeared in more than a hundred locations around Hong Kong, often in pedestrian tunnels or near subway stations. Though the walls are seen as a peaceful protest method, they have also become flashpoints for violence. | |
| Protesters defied authorities with an illegal march on Sunday, their numbers swollen by anger over the recent stabbing and beating of two pro-democracy protesters. | |
| Authorities had forbidden the march in Tsim Sha Tsui, a densely packed shopping district filled with luxury boutiques and hotels, citing public safety and previous violence from hardcore protesters. | |
| A new Hong Kong extradition law is proposed, which would allow people to be transferred to mainland China for a variety of crimes. Residents fear it could lead to politically motivated extraditions into China's much harsher judicial system. | |
| Large public demonstrations start as thousands march in the streets to protest against the extradition bill. | |
| Hong Kong lawmakers scuffle in parliament during a row over the law. | |
| Hong Kong's leader, Carrie Lam, introduces concessions to the extradition bill, including limiting the scope of extraditable offences, but critics say they are not enough. | |
| The scale of protests continues to increase as more than half a million people take to the streets. Police use rubber bullets and teargas against the biggest protests Hong Kong has seen for decades. | |
| Lam says the proposed extradition law has been postponed indefinitely. | |
| The protests continue as demonstrators storm the Legislative Council, destroying pictures, daubing graffiti on the walls and flying the old flag of Hong Kong emblazoned with the British union flag. The protests coincide with the 22nd anniversary of the handover of Hong Kong from the UK back to China. | |
| Armed men in white T-shirts thought to be supporting the Chinese government attack passengers and passers-by in Yuen Long metro station, while nearby police take no action. | |
| 44 protesters are charged with rioting, which further antagonises the anti-extradition bill movement. | |
| By now the protest movement has coalesced around five key demands: complete withdrawal of the proposed extradition bill, withdrawal of the use of the word "riot" in relation to the protests, unconditional release of arrested protesters and charges against them dropped, an independent inquiry into police behaviour and the implementation of genuine universal suffrage. | |
| The mass protests enter their fifteenth week, with police resorting to teargas and water cannon against the demonstrators, and a wave of "doxxing" using digital techniques to unmask police and protesters as a new front in the battle. | |
| Police shoot a protester with live ammunition for the first time, as demonstrations continue on the day marking the 70th anniversary of the declaration of the People's Republic of China. | |
| The first charges are brought against protesters for covering their faces, after authorities bring in new laws banning face masks in order to make it easier to identify or detain protesters. | |
| Hong Kong officials spark outrage in the city as it revealed that nearly a third of protesters arrested since June have been children. Seven hundred and 50 out of the 2,379 people arrested were under 18, and 104 were under 16. | |
| Lam is forced to deliver a key annual policy speech via video link after after being heckled in parliament, as the legislative council resumed sessions after it was suspended on 12 June. Later in the day one of the protest leaders, Jimmy Sham, was attacked by assailants wielding hammers and knives. | |
| The rally of tens of thousands began peacefully but quickly descended into chaos as small groups of hardcore protesters hurled petrol bombs at a police station, subway entrances and at branches of banks based in the Chinese mainland. Police responded with multiple volleys of teargas. | |
| At one point, a water cannon truck chased thousands of protesters down Nathan Road, one of the city’s busiest shopping thoroughfares, leaving it streaked with blue dye from the vehicle’s turrets. The dye, used to identify protesters, also contains a pepper solution that burns the skin on contact. | |
| As the protesters fled the streets, frontliners stayed behind to slow the advance of riot police, setting fire to makeshift barricades. | |
| Tensions were running high after the leader of the group organising the weekend rally, Jimmy Sham, was taken to hospital after being injured by men wielding hammers earlier in the week. | |
| The Civil Human Rights Front, which Sham leads, had applied for permission to hold a peaceful rally on Sunday calling for an independent inquiry into police brutality and universal suffrage, but their request was rejected by police. | |
| More than four months of huge and increasingly violent protests in Hong Kong were initially prompted by a now-scrapped bill that would have allowed extraditions to mainland China. They have since snowballed into a wider movement calling for greater democracy and police accountability after Beijing and local leaders took a hard line. | |
| Several pro-democracy activists have been attacked by pro-Beijing supporters in recent months, and Sham was also assaulted in August. | |
| As the situation has escalated, hardcore pro-democracy protesters have also begun meting out violence against people who vocally disagree with their goals or are viewed to be government loyalists. | |
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