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Hong Kong protests: student reporter alleges police officer made reference to sexual assault in threats during arrest
- Journalism student Nelson Tang ‘furious’ about officers’ use of sexual expressions regarding controversial police holding centre to harass him
- Tang, who has been released on bail, was arrested for ‘disorder in a public place’ and detained for 18 hours
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A student reporter detained while covering a protest at a shopping mall in Hong Kong has alleged that a police officer used threatening words referencing sexual assault as he was being arrested.
Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday, Nelson Tang Chak-man, a year three journalism student at Baptist University, said he was “extremely frightened” when two or three riot police officers turned and dashed towards him and then pushed him into a corner in the Cityplaza shopping centre in Tai Koo Shing at about 9pm on Sunday, around two hours after a bloody knife attack outside the mall.
Tang said he was reporting for the student union’s editorial board and was not taking part in the demonstration, one of a number of protests in malls across the city on Sunday.
“I am overwhelmingly furious about officers’ use of sexual expressions regarding San Uk Ling to harass and threaten me,” Tang said, referring to a police holding centre hit by allegations of maltreatment of anti-government protesters detained there.
The city’s leader, Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor, announced in September that San Uk Ling Holding Centre, located at a remote site in Sheung Shui, would close. Concerns had been raised about the centre after a number of protesters detained there were later hospitalised.
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