Hong Kong lawmaker charged with rioting over Yuen Long attack accuses police of ‘rewriting history’
- 4 years ago
Hong Kong opposition lawmaker Lam Cheuk-ting and six others were released on bail on August 27, 2020, after being charged with rioting over violence that erupted at Yuen Long MTR station in 2019. Lam was injured at the station when a group of white-clad men armed with steel rods and rattan canes attacked commuters and protesters on July 21 last year. Lam accused the city’s police of trying to “rewrite the history” of the attack by suggesting the Yuen Long incident was not an "indiscriminate…