Ming Pao's former chief editor Kevin Lau, who was brutally attacked on Wednesday, is transferred to a private ward in Eastern Hospital after spending three days in intensive care in Hong Kong March 1, 2014. REUTERS/Stringer
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Police in Hong Kong and China have arrested nine men with suspected links to organised 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. Protesters held up banners saying "They can't kill us all" and "Protect press freedom".
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