Men Armed With Sledgehammers, Knife Attack Chinese Dissident Paper

Epoch Times blames regime for fifth attack on printing plant

Yuichiro Kakutani • April 13, 2021 3:45 pm

Armed thugs in Hong Kong broke into the printing facility of an anti-government newspaper to destroy its equipment, the latest example of what the paper says is the Chinese Communist Party’s crackdown on press freedom in the city state.

Surveillance footage shows masked attackers, one of them armed with a knife, wielding sledge hammers to destroy printing equipment. The intruders scuttled away after two minutes, stealing a computer in the process.

4 masked intruders armed with sledge hammers barged into the @EpochTimesHK printing plant in the early hours of April 12, damaging computers and printing equipment.

The printing press has been attacked 4 previous times.

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— The Epoch Times (@EpochTimes) April 12, 2021

The attackers are still at large, but the Epoch Times laid the blame squarely on the Chinese Communist Party. Cheryl Ng, a spokeswoman for the Epoch Times‘s Hong Kong edition, said the “intrusion was characteristic of the CCP” and aimed to silence “reporting on topics that are taboo to the communist regime.”