Attack on Epoch Times Printing Press Fueled by HK Government Inaction: Media Advocacy Group

Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam holds a pamphlet for the "Improving Electoral System (Consolidated Amendments) Bill 2021" as she speaks during a press conference at the government headquarters in Hong Kong on April 13, 2021. Anthony Wallace/AFP via Getty Images

The Hong Kong government, through its inaction, was “encouraging” the recent violent attack on the printing press of the city’s edition of The Epoch Times, media advocacy group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said in a statement condemning the incident.

Around 4 a.m. on April 12, four armed men barged into the Hong Kong edition’s printing warehouse. They smashed equipment with sledgehammers and scattered construction debris on equipment before stealing a computer and fleeing in a white van.