Leung Kin-fai

Leung Kin-fai (Chinese: 梁健輝; 1971 – 1 July 2021) was a Hong Kong merchandiser known for stabbing a 29 year old police officer in Causeway Bay and committing suicide immediately afterwards. The attack took place on a day when three sensitive dates converged – the anniversary of the territory's handover from British to Chinese rule, the 100th Anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party, one year (and a day) after the imposition of the Hong Kong national security law. The victim, Wai-ming survived the stabbing after going through 7 hours of emergency surgery. In an interview with the South China Morning Post, Wai-ming said that he could not forgive "a man who thought he could evade responsibility by committing suicide”, as that sent a wrong message to society, and that his message to Leung was that he believed violence was wrong and is never the solution.

Leung's death resulted in a sharp fall of the share price of his employer, Vitasoy International; expressions of sympathy for Leung and public mourning of his demise in Hong Kong were declared tantamount to supporting terrorism by the hardline government of Carrie Lam. As a result of criticism of a students' union motion at the University of Hong Kong that expressed "deep sadness" at the death of Leung, and appreciation of his "actions", members of its council resigned and 32 students were excluded from the university by the governing council; dissenting from the rationale for exclusion, Eric Cheung, the principal lecturer of the law faculty tendered his resignation from the council. Four student leaders were later arrested on suspicion of violations of the national security law.