Eleven Arrested Over Kevin Lau Attack
Sixteen days after the chopping of ousted Ming Pao editor Kevin Lau Chun-to, police arrested seven people suspected of being accomplices in the attack.
The two assailants’ mobile phones were tracked to a hiding place in Dongguan, and Guangdong police detained them as “undesirable persons” before later extraditing them to Hong Kong. Two more suspects were arrested in Hong Kong the next day. Police chief Andy Tsang Wai-hung said that while he couldn’t eliminate any possibilities, there was “no direct evidence” that the attack had anything to do with Lau’s journalism. Lau is recovering in hospital and publishing essays about his injuries. He writes that he’s glad his “backbone” protected him.
Our take: Good work, cops! Now: will they be able to work out who ordered the attack?