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At 4:30 a.m. on Tuesday, four masked men broke into the Hong Kong printing facility of The Epoch Times, a newspaper openly critical of the Chinese Communist Party, and smashed its office computers, stole other computer parts and poured concrete mix over the printing machines.
Wielding hammers and knives, the intruders forced themselves past the facility’s overnight crew, an assault recorded on CCTV. While the attack only took about two minutes, the damage was sufficient to grind the Hong Kong printing operation to a halt, resulting in the temporary suspension of the paper’s distribution.
“This incident was to suppress Hong Kong’s freedom of speech and intended to silence media which tells the truth,” Epoch Times spokeswoman Cheryl Ng said. “We condemn violence and never back down.”
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Epoch Times Defiant After Hong Kong Printing Press Attacked By Jerome TAYLOR
04/13/21 AT 4:55 AM
A Hong Kong newspaper linked to a spiritual group banned in China said Tuesday it would never back down after a gang of sledgehammer-wielding men damaged its printing presses.
The assault on the Epoch Times was captured on CCTV and comes as China oversees a sweeping crackdown against critics in Hong Kong following huge and often violent democracy protests in 2019.
Footage released by the paper showed four masked men storming into the printing plant in the early hours of Monday morning and smashing up equipment. The Epoch Times is handed out by members of Falun Gong, a spiritual movement that is banned in China Photo: AFP / Isaac Lawrence