Near the end of the talk Sunday in Birmingham, England, Benedict Rogers, a human-rights activist and critic of the Chinese government, was concluding his remarks by saying, “I am pro-China, not anti-China. I want China and its people to succeed.”
A heckler at a political event is hardly unusual. The woman was no ordinary heckler, though. She was a reporter from China’s state-run international broadcaster, CGTN.
One volunteer at the event, Enoch Lieu, tried to remove the reporter, when she slapped him, he said. Lieu said she slapped him again as others tried to escort her from the conference hall.
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