Nine arrested over stabbing of Hong Kong newspaper editor

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Nine arrested over stabbing of Hong Kong newspaper editor

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/nine-arrested-over-stabbing-hong-kong-newspaper-editor-100439012--sector.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/h74k2PaSkN2Xz30QX76j1A--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2014-03-12T101116Z_1_CBREA2B0SAU00_RTROPTP_2_HONGKONG-EDITOR.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Hong Kong's Commissioner of Police Tsang speaks during a news conference in Hong Kong" align="left" title="Hong Kong's Commissioner of Police Tsang speaks during a news conference in Hong Kong" border="0" /></a>By Grace Li HONG KONG (Reuters) - Police in Hong Kong and China have arrested nine men with suspected links to organized crime for the stabbing of a prominent Hong Kong journalist, the territory's chief of police said on Wednesday, an attack that was seen by many as an assault on press freedom. Thousands of protesters dressed in black and wearing blue ribbons, symbolizing press freedom, marched in condemnation of the attack this month. Hong Kong, a former British colony that returned to Chinese rule in 1997, is a freewheeling capitalist hub which enjoys a high degree of autonomy and freedom, but Beijing's Communist Party leaders have resisted public pressure for full democracy. Two men had been arrested in China, and seven in Hong Kong in connection with the attack on Kevin Lau, a former editor of the respected Ming Pao newspaper, who was seriously wounded.</p><br clear="all"/>

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