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Hong Kong law student from mainland China remanded in custody after being charged for publicly mourning ‘lone wolf’ attacker who knifed police officer

  • Zeng Yuxuan, 23, is refused bail after she appears at West Kowloon Magistrates’ Court charged with sedition under colonial-era law
  • It is alleged she laid flowers and placed candles and pictures near Causeway Bay scene of the attack two years ago

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The Causeway Bay scene of a lone wolf knife attack on a police officer on the 2021 anniversary of the city’s return to Chinese rule. Photo: Xiaomei Chen
Fiona Chow
A mainland Chinese woman studying in Hong Kong was remanded in custody on Friday after she was charged under colonial-era sedition legislation in the wake of an alleged public display of mourning for a man who carried out a “lone wolf” knife attack on a police officer two years ago on the 24th anniversary of the city’s handover by Britain.
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Zeng Yuxuan, 23, a law student, was first arrested on New Year’s Day after she was said to have laid flowers and placed candles and pictures near the Sogo department store in Causeway Bay, the scene of the attack.

She was also alleged to have images of seditious slogans.

Zeng appeared at West Kowloon magistrates’ court to face an allegation that she committed an act or acts with seditious intention after she was rearrested on Thursday.

The injured police officer shows the scars left after he was the victim of a lone wolf attack outside a Causeway Bay department store two years ago. Photo: Edmond So
The injured police officer shows the scars left after he was the victim of a lone wolf attack outside a Causeway Bay department store two years ago. Photo: Edmond So
The store, on Hennessy Road, is near where Leung Kin-fai, 50, stabbed the officer, who suffered a 10cm (four inch) deep back wound and a punctured lung, before he turned the blade on himself on July 1, 2021.
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