Chinese media from 30 countries condemn attack on Xinhua offices in Hong Kong
- Group led by International Daily News, which has links to Chinese state media, issues joint statement decrying ‘barbaric acts of the mob against the national news agency’
- Anti-government protesters vandalised Xinhua’s offices on November 2, smashing windows and throwing petrol bombs
The group was led by International Daily News, an organisation owned by Indonesian tycoon Xiong Delong that has ties to Chinese state media, including the overseas edition of People’s Daily, the mouthpiece of the Communist Party.
The company publishes about a dozen newspapers and magazines in Indonesia and the United States, as well as running two media websites.
According to the letter, which was published on Thursday and picked up by China’s state media on Sunday, the “barbaric acts of the mob against the national news agency have crossed the bottom line of the rule of law, civilisation and freedom, seriously hurting the feelings of the 1.4 billion Chinese people and the 56 million overseas Chinese”.
A group of protesters attacked Xinhua’s office building in the Wan Chai district of Hong Kong on the evening of November 2, smashing windows and throwing paint and petrol bombs into the lobby area.