Hongkonger who was set on fire by radical protesters in November last year says he will continue to fight injustice
- Lee, a construction worker who had suffered burns to at least a third of his body, returned home recently after staying in hospital for three months
- The 57-year-old man was reportedly involved in an argument with masked protesters who vandalised an MTR station on November 11
The construction worker, who suffered burns to at least a third of his body, has been discharged and returned home recently after staying in a hospital for about three months.
The man, surnamed Lee, who is not being fully named because of a court order, had four rounds of surgeries to have skin transplanted onto his burn wounds. But the procedures were so painful that Lee said he would rather give up further rounds of skin grafting.
Lee’s latest condition was disclosed in a post on the Facebook page of pro-Beijing legislator Elizabeth Quat, who visited him and his wife at their home last Saturday.
The 57-year-old man was reportedly involved in an argument with masked protesters who rampaged through Ma On Shan MTR station during an anti-government protest on November 11. Online footage showed the father of two being doused with flammable liquid and then set alight.