Police Pepper Spray Protestors During Hu Jintao’s Hong Kong Visit

Hong Kong protestors were pepper sprayed and a reporter was detained for calling out a question about the Tiananmen Squre massacre during Chinese Communist Party leader Hu Jintao’s three day visit to Hong Kong, marking 15 years of Chinese communist rule under the “one country, two systems” policy.

A protester rinses his eyes with water after being hit with pepper spray by Hong Kong police. Liang Lusi/The Epoch Times

According to Apple Daily, a Hong Kong tabloid with pro-democracy leanings, journalists reporting Hu’s visit to Hong Kong were also closely monitored by police and state security agents. 

While reporting Hu’s visit to a new cruise ship terminal in Hong Kong, a reporter from Apple Daily shouted out a question from behind a security cordon: “Chairman Hu, have you heard that Hong Kong people hope for a redress of the June 4 incident?”Apple Daily reported. The June 4 incident refers to the 1989 student-led democracy demonstrations, which ended in a violent military suppression.

The report said plainclothes police quickly took the reporter away and detained him for 15 minutes. He was told that he was “loudly disrupting order and breaking the rules.”