{"id":418297,"date":"2021-04-13T15:58:18","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T19:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=418297"},"modified":"2021-04-13T15:58:25","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T19:58:25","slug":"men-armed-with-sledgehammers-knife-attack-chinese-dissident-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/men-armed-with-sledgehammers-knife-attack-chinese-dissident-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"Men Armed With Sledgehammers, Knife Attack Chinese Dissident Paper"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmen-armed-with-sledgehammers-knife-attack-chinese-dissident-paper%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=418297&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"28.943820224719\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Epoch Times blames regime for fifth attack on printing plant<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"736\" height=\"368\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-27.png\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-13-at-2.20.28-PM-736x368.png 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-13-at-2.20.28-PM-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-13-at-2.20.28-PM-768x384.png 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-13-at-2.20.28-PM-1024x511.png 1024w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-13-at-2.20.28-PM-1400x699.png 1400w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-13-at-2.20.28-PM-700x350.png 700w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-26.png 1538w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/>\t\t\t<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/yuichiro-kakutani\/\" title=\"Posts by Yuichiro Kakutani\" rel=\"author\" class=\"text-red-700\">Yuichiro Kakutani<\/a> \u2022 April 13, 2021 3:45 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"63.281078107811\">\n<p>Armed thugs in Hong Kong broke into the printing facility of an anti-government newspaper to destroy its equipment, the latest example of what the paper says is the Chinese Communist Party&#8217;s crackdown on press freedom in the city state.<\/p>\n<div readability=\"12.81881533101\">The <em>Epoch<\/em> <em>Times<\/em>, a paper founded by Chinese dissidents in 2000, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/hammer-wielding-intruders-damage-hong-kong-epoch-times-printing-press_3771887.html?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=digitalsub\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/hammer-wielding-intruders-damage-hong-kong-epoch-times-printing-press_3771887.html?utm_medium%3Dsocial%26utm_source%3Dtwitter%26utm_campaign%3Ddigitalsub&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1618424274236000&amp;usg=AFQjCNF4psK6U1ZwGWmm5fcx6fnYhgDQnA\">said<\/a>&nbsp;four intruders forced their way into the paper&#8217;s Hong Kong printing plant during the early hours of April 12. The intrusion marks the fifth time vandals attacked the printing facility since it was established in 2006.<\/div>\n<p>Surveillance footage shows masked attackers, one of them armed with a knife, wielding sledge hammers to destroy printing equipment. The intruders scuttled away after two minutes, stealing a computer in the process.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"10.852071005917\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">4 masked intruders armed with sledge hammers barged into the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EpochTimesHK?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@EpochTimesHK<\/a> printing plant in the early hours of April 12, damaging computers and printing equipment.<\/p>\n<p>The printing press has been attacked 4 previous times.<\/p>\n<p>Read full article: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/B7IxnquMOd\">https:\/\/t.co\/B7IxnquMOd<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/esNgaDpvXJ\">pic.twitter.com\/esNgaDpvXJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Epoch Times (@EpochTimes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EpochTimes\/status\/1381671155019476996?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 12, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The attackers are still at large, but the <em>Epoch<\/em> <em>Times<\/em> laid the blame squarely on the Chinese Communist Party. Cheryl Ng, a spokeswoman for the <em>Epoch Times<\/em>\u2018s Hong Kong edition, said the &#8220;intrusion was characteristic of the CCP&#8221; and aimed to silence &#8220;reporting on topics that are taboo to the communist regime.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div readability=\"18.644028103044\">The <em>Epoch<\/em> <em>Times<\/em> is not the only newspaper suffering from the Chinese state&#8217;s growing repression in Hong Kong, which has worsened since it passed a national security law in June 2020. In August, authorities <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-china-53717843\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-china-53717843&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1618424274236000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGAbvYxAABIyt51L7vgwkraZpoYBg\">arrested<\/a>&nbsp;Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai, the owner of the pro-democracy <em>Apple<\/em> <em>Daily<\/em>, ostensibly for colluding with foreign powers. Police raided the <em>Apple<\/em> <em>Daily<\/em>\u2018s office on the same day, carting off boxes of evidence.<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Epoch Times blames regime for fifth attack on printing plant  Yuichiro Kakutani \u2022 April 13, 2021 3:45 pm Armed thugs in Hong Kong broke &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2312117,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-27.png","fifu_image_alt":"Men Armed With Sledgehammers, Knife Attack Chinese Dissident Paper","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-27.png","fifu_image_alt":"Men Armed With Sledgehammers, Knife Attack Chinese Dissident Paper","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2312117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}