HK journalist seeks justice after losing right eye
By Reuters
11 December 2019 |
6:16 am
Hit by a projectile fired by Hong Kong police while covering an anti-government protest nearly two months ago, Indonesian journalist Veby Mega Indah was blinded in one eye, but that has not blotted out the traumatic flashbacks filling her mind.
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