Pro-Beijing lawmaker Alice Mak sues two Hong Kong democrats for defamation, accusing them of linking her to Yuen Long attack
- Federation of Trade Unions official accuses lawmaker and Yuen Long councillor of ‘seriously damaging her high reputation’
- Mak seeks damages and injunction orders to prevent the publishing of anything potentially defamatory
A pro-Beijing lawmaker has sued two Hong Kong democrats for defamation, accusing them of suggesting that she encouraged villagers to harass protesters before the mob attack at the Yuen Long MTR station last month.
Alice Mak Mei-kuen, of the Federation of Trade Unions, on Wednesday brought the suit to the High Court against lawmaker Eddie Chu Hoi-dick and Yuen Long district councillor Zachary Wong Wai-yin. Mak accused the men of making comments that implied she was an “uncivilised, barbaric and immoral person”.
Mak is now seeking unspecified damages as well as injunction orders to prevent Chu and his subordinates from publishing anything potentially defamatory.
The case stemmed from Mak’s speech at the Ping Shan Rural Committee inauguration ceremony in Yuen Long on July 18, when she addressed some 1,100 attendees, most of them village clansmen.