Hong Kong police accused of harassing hospital staff during searches for extradition bill protesters as medical and legal professionals call on officers to behave
- About 80 medical and legal practitioners, together with six professional groups, sign petition calling on force to stop its actions in hospitals
- They say at least five injured demonstrators were detained while others declined to go for treatment, fearing they would be arrested too
A group of medical and legal professionals on Sunday accused Hong Kong police of harassing medical staff and arresting anti-extradition bill protesters visiting hospital for treatment, saying at least five demonstrators were detained while seeking help.
Accusing the force of spreading “white terror”, the group also said there were injured demonstrators who declined to be taken to hospital because they feared arrest.
“Our message to police is that they must behave themselves, and review what they did in the hospitals,” said Dr Wong Yam-hong, spokesman for doctors’ concern group Médecins Inspirés.
“We consider this white terror because there were injured protesters who did not want to seek help at the hospitals.”
Wong was one of a group of about 80 medical and legal practitioners, together with six professional bodies, who signed a petition calling on the force to stop its actions in hospitals.