Leung Kwok-hung Stabbed Outside Liaison Office

Pro-democracy activist and disqualified lawmaker Leung Kwok-hung was stabbed outside Beijing's liaison office on Thursday, but was believed to have only suffered a minor injury.

Leung, from the League of Social Democrats, was stabbed in the side with a sharp object as he was being interviewed by RTHK during a protest.

A reporter from RTHK's English News service said that while she was speaking to Leung, a man came up behind the activist, as if to hug him.

"I thought it was a joke at first and that they knew each other," she said, adding that there wasn't a lot of blood from the stab wound.

A number of people jumped in to help Leung after the stabbing, grabbing the attacker.

Police arrested an 81-year-old man in connection with the case. He was detained on suspicion of assault occasioning actual bodily harm.

The former legislator, known as 'Longhair', had been protesting over Beijing's condemnation this week of filibustering in the Legislative Council. The Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office had suggested that pro-democracy lawmakers could be guilty of misconduct in public office.

Leung said Beijing is making threats against the pan-dems to help pave the way for the introduction of Article 23 national security legislation.

"What annoys the Chinese authorities is that they cannot make use of Legco, which is overwhelmed by loyalists of the CCP due to the unfair system," he said, just before he came under attack.

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