Leung Kwok-hung wounded in stabbing outside liaison office

Pro-democracy activist and disqualified lawmaker Leung Kwok-hung was stabbed outside Beijing's liaison office today, but was believed to have only suffered a minor injury, RTHK reports.
Leung, from the League of Social Democrats, was stabbed in the side with a sharp object during a protest and was taken to hospital.
Police arrested an elderly man at the scene.
An RTHK reporter who was speaking to Leung at the time said the attacker came up behind the activist, as if to hug him.
"I thought it was a joke at first and that they knew each other," she said, adding that there wasn't a lot of blood from the stab wound.
A number of people jumped in to help Leung after the stabbing, grabbing the attacker. Police arrested a man and a police car came to take him away.
Leung was helped to a nearby set of steps to rest until an ambulance arrived to take him to hospital. He joked that he could have died, had his attacker been younger.
The former legislator, known as 'Longhair', had been protesting over Beijing's condemnation this week of filibustering in the Legislative Council. The Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office had suggested that pro-democracy lawmakers could be guilty of misconduct in public office.
Leung said Beijing is making threats against the pan-dems to help pave the way for the introduction of Article 23 national security legislation.
"What annoys the Chinese authorities is that they cannot make use of Legco, which is overwhelmed by loyalists of the CCP due to the unfair system," he said, before the attack took place.

The League of Social Democrats, and the Labour Party protested outside the Liaison Office this afternoon against the "interference in Hong Kong affairs" by the office and Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office.

The assailant was arrested by police. Photos: Leung Kwok Hung's Facebook page.