HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong police have charged a democracy activist with misleading police after claiming he had been abducted and assaulted by mainland Chinese agents.
Howard Lam, a veteran yet low-profile member of the city's main opposition group, the Democratic Party, held a press conference last week claiming agents from mainland China forced him into a car in the middle of the city, punched metal staples in the shape of crucifixes into his thighs for being "unpatriotic", and dumped him on a remote beach.
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