The Buzz | Hong Kong protest organizer attacked with hammers

Organizers of some of the giant demonstrations that have shaken Hong Kong say one of their leading activists has been attacked by assailants with hammers, leaving him bloody but conscious.

The Civil Human Rights Front says on its Facebook page that Jimmy Sham was on his way to a meeting when the four or five armed attackers pounced on him in Kowloon.

It suggested the attack was politically motivated, linked to “a spreading political terror in order to threaten and inhibit the legitimate exercise of natural and legal rights.”

Sham has been one of the public faces of the anti-government protest movement now in its fifth month.

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