Police are hunting four assailants who strode into the offices of a radical online newspaper and destroyed its equipment yesterday.
The masked men marched into Independent Media's (In-media) ninth-floor office on Hennessy Road, Wan Chai, at around 1.20pm and smashed computers and a television before fleeing, the paper said.
Two employees present during the attack were uninjured.
'[The men] first ordered the two workers to sit aside before smashing three computers and a television with hammers. They then ran downstairs,' In-media said on its website.
The attack was condemned by lawmakers and the Hong Kong Human Rights Monitor, which said such violence was a threat to freedom of speech and the press.
In-media said that just before the incident, an unknown caller phoned to inquire about their opening hours and how to donate money to the company.