Hong Kong national security police home searched and confiscated the travel documents of a reporter who filmed police stabbing from leaving city. (Picture)

 

The reporter — who filmed the incident live for Secret China, a Chinese-language American online media outlet — was asked to give statement as a witness at Wan Chai police station on the night of the attack. At that time, she was accompanied by a lawyer arranged by the Hong Kong Journalists’ Association (HKJA), the group said in a statement posted to Facebook in the early hours of Tuesday. At around 11pm on Monday, national security police visited the reporter at her temporary residence and requested that she give additional statements at a police station, the HKJA said. In the presence of national security police officers, she made a call to her lawyer and gave instructions that their service was not needed. She instead gave statements in the company of a friend, according to the Association.