9 held over stabbing of newspaper ex-editor
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POLICE have arrested nine men with suspected links to organized crime for the stabbing of a former editor of a Chinese newspaper in Hong Kong, the city’s chief of police said yesterday.
Two men had been arrested on China’s mainland, and seven in Hong Kong in connection with the attack on Kevin Lau, a former editor of the Ming Pao newspaper, who was seriously wounded.
“We suspect the assailants were hired and they have a triad background,” said Andy Tsang, Hong Kong’s commissioner of police.
All nine were Hong Kong residents. Tsang declined to give grounds for making the arrests, but said preliminary inquiries suggested the attacks had nothing to do with Lau’s journalistic work.
“We will not rule out any motive at the moment, but according to the information at hand there is nothing to suspect it is related to journalism,” he told reporters.
The two men were arrested in Guangdong province by local police, with whom Hong Kong police have been co-operating closely on the case, Tsang said.
“We don’t rule out more people being arrested,” said Tsang.
Lau, speaking from his hospital bed where he’s now in stable condition, said earlier he hoped police could crack the case swiftly “to restore journalists’ confidence in the rule of law.”
Lau, who until recently was editor-in-chief of Ming Pao, was stabbed in the back and legs on February 26. The assailant fled on a motorcycle with an accomplice.
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