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Fifteen-year-old boy arrested over attack on Hong Kong rights activist Jimmy Sham and his assistant

  • Man, 44, also arrested over assault with baseball bat and rod on Civil Human Rights Front convenor Jimmy Sham in cafe
  • Sham escaped unhurt, while assistant Law Kwok-wai was injured trying to save him

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Civil Human Rights Front convenor Jimmy Sham was attacked at a cafe in Jordan last Thursday. Photo: Nora Tam
Christy Leung
Two male suspects, one a 15-year-old boy, were arrested over an attack on a Hong Kong activist and his assistant, police said on Thursday.
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The suspects were detained after Civil Human Rights Front convenor Jimmy Sham Tsz-kit and his assistant Law Kwok-wai were attacked with a baseball bat and a rod by two people in masks in Jordan last Thursday, hours after they were told by police that a rally they had planned for the following weekend had been banned.

The front organised two record-breaking marches in June at the start of nearly three months of anti-governments protests rocking the city.

Jimmy Sham’s assistant Law Kwok-wai got injured in the attack and was taken to Queen Elizabeth Hospital. Photo: Handout
Jimmy Sham’s assistant Law Kwok-wai got injured in the attack and was taken to Queen Elizabeth Hospital. Photo: Handout

The detained pair, aged 15 and 44, were arrested separately from their homes on Monday and Wednesday, Senior Superintendent Kevin Kong Wing-cheung from the force’s public relations branch said, adding they were involved in conspiracy to assault occasioning actual bodily harm, driving without a licence, driving without third-party insurance and using a false instrument.

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The boy was charged with conspiracy to assault occasioning actual bodily harm and appeared in Kowloon City Juvenile Court on Tuesday. He has been remanded in a boys’ home.

The 44-year-old man was arrested in Tuen Mun on Wednesday and is the owner of one of the two cars involved in the incident. He was later released on bail.

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