Mainland Student Attacks Cliff Buddle Legal Lecturer Because His Lecture Was Delivered In English AT HKU

And this in Hong Kong too. .... Here's the link to the facebook page where you can see Buddle being assaulted https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10152729066512482&set=vb.556037481&type=2&theater Cliff Buddle has more than 30 years experience as a journalist specialising in law and legal affairs.   He has been teaching law for 13 years. He began his career as a court reporter at the Old Bailey in London, providing stories for the national media.  Cliff was brought to Hong Kong by the South China Morning Post in 1994 and, as chief court reporter, covered landmark constitutional cases following Hong Kong’s return to China.  He has served as deputy editor of the newspaper and also acting editor-in-chief. Cliff passed the Common Professional Examination with HKUSPACE/Manchester Metropolitan University in 2000.  He obtained a masters degree in Human Rights Law with the University of Hong Kong in 2005.  His dissertation was on the law underpinning Hong Kong’s political system.  Cliff teaches media law for the Journalism and Media Studies Centre at the University of Hong Kong and has taught European Union Law, Common Law Reasoning and Institutions, Hong Kong Legal System and Public Law for HKUSPACE. Information sourced at  http://medialaw2013.law.hku.hk/speaker/cliff-buddle/ This is the text that accompanies the video A rare case of campus violence took place on Monday, Oct. 6th at 2:15 pm during a Media Law and Ethics class inside lecture theatre T3 of the Meng Wah Complex at the University of Hong Kong. The footage shows what happened right after the lecturer Mr. Cliff Buddle, an SCMP veteran and legal expert, was brutally assaulted mid-lecture. In the name of patriotism, he was kicked and attacked with a leather-bound journal. His attacker, a 27 year-old male from Anhui, claims to be a visiting student from the reputed Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. Bravehearts Vangary Li and Jonathan Wong prevented him from leaving the scene. //During the lecture, the assailant was reportedly copying words from a book titled "???" (Fa Ming Xue) onto a journal until the pages were almost black. As the confrontation continued in English, the assailant snapped, “Why don’t you speak in Mandarin? You’re Chinese!” He then proceeded to tell Li that he shall be spared from a fight, as he regarded him as a “fellow countryman”. He later made a second attempt to escape but was escorted back to his original seat. Throughout the altercation, the assailant made clear of his anti-West sentiments by voicing strong objections about the medium of instruction being English. //Assailant declares, “We’re all Chinese and you should speak Mandarin in class.” Seeing as the disruptions were not letting up, Mr. Buddle called for an early class dismissal but students insisted on staying, as they were concerned about his safety and wished to act as legal witnesses of the incident. Shortly afterwards, staff members of the Department of Journalism arrived with security guards. The police soon arrived and detained the assailant at the scene. Fortunately, no one was injured and currently, the police are investigating the facts of the matter.