University of Hong Kong council member Arthur Li claims he was punched as students stormed meeting
University of Hong Kong council member Arthur Li Kwok-cheung has claimed he was assaulted when a group of students stormed a meeting of the HKU governing body last week.
Li told TVB's programme last night: "I was punched when I was trying to get out. There was a lot of shoving and pushing, but they stopped us leaving. So, in the end, I had to sit down [and] do what they say."
Asked why he did not make a big deal of the attack then, he said he did "not want to be seen to be whining", but insisted that somebody behind him punched his kidney area during the melee.
"I was hit in the kidney, in the back, but that night I went home and checked my urine. Luckily I didn't have any blood," he added.
Dozens of students forced their way in after hearing the council had voted down a motion to revisit the deferred appointment of liberal legal scholar Professor Johannes Chan Man-mun as a pro-vice-chancellor.
There was a lot of shoving and pushing, but they stopped us leaving
Chan's supporters believed the delay was linked to his pro-democracy views and close ties with colleague Benny Tai Yiu-ting, who co-founded last year's Occupy movement.
