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Subject: Hong Kong Police arrested a man who threatened Legco Member Leung Kwok Hung

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Date Posted: 02:04:33 09/20/04 Mon

Hong Kong Police arrested Hong Kong man who allegedly threatened to kill prominent anti-government protester
Hong Kong police said they arrested a man on Sunday who threatened to kill a radical anti-government protester who won a seat in last week's legislative elections.

The 42-year-old man, surnamed Ng, threatened to "chop up" Leung Kwok-hung after a political forum Sunday, police spokeswoman Kelly Chan said. She said Ng was arrested for criminal intimidation.

Leung _ known locally as "Longhair" _ was confronted by an angry and mostly elderly mob after the forum and police used barricades to separate the two sides. Many of the elderly people were supporters of the Beijing government.

"Why did they scold me? I'm not the one who makes their lives miserable. I'm the one who scolds the people who make them suffer," Leung said in comments broadcast by local network Cable TV.

Leung told reporters that some people threatened to "kill him and beat him." He later left under police escort and officers also took away a 73-year-old man for questioning, Chan said.

Leung, who frequently criticizes Hong Kong leader Tung Chee-hwa and heckles him at official events, held an unprecedented meeting with Tung on Saturday in which he called on Tung to resign.

But the highly unpopular leader, hand-picked by Beijing to run Hong Kong after the former colony was returned to China in 1997, gave no indication that he would quit.

Leung has long participated in anti-government protests _ chanting slogans, burning flags and scuffling with police.

In last Sunday's legislative election, he won strong support from voters angry with the government.

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