Hong Kong national security police raid university student union as part of investigation into stabbed officer motion
- Police enter student union office on HKU campus and cordon off surrounding area; officers also search the on-site premises of student media
- University previously cut ties with the union over its response to Causeway Bay knife attack and condemned students for ‘serious misconduct’
National security police have raided the offices of the student union and campus media at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) after youth leaders formally expressed appreciation for the “sacrifice” of a man who stabbed an officer before killing himself.
Police moved on the student union office at the Pok Fu Lam campus at about 3.15pm, extending their search to other floors of the union building and parts of the university housing the video production team Campus TV and magazine Undergrad, both of which are run by students.
No union members were in the office at the time, nor were they spotted in the vicinity. The chairmen of the two media outlets are also members of the Students’ Union Council, which passed last week’s motion in tribute to the dead knifeman.
About 40 officers from the force’s National Security Department were deployed for the search, which lasted nearly four hours, with dozens of Police Tactical Unit officers on standby, according to the police source.
Kong Chak-ho, chairman of Campus TV, said about a dozen police officers had spent nearly two hours combing its office in front of him and the station’s lawyer. A host computer was taken away from the office, Kong added.
Also present were university representatives, including Professor Samson Tse Shu-ki, the dean of student affairs, who was supporting students at the scene.
