Taipei, Taiwan: The ongoing Tibet Film Festival at the Regal Riverside Hotel in Hong Kong was briefly disrupted by a mob of about 20 people earlier on Saturday, 27 September.

The mob created ruckus at the event and manhandled the organizers.

One of the organizers was slapped when they tried to stop the mob from attacking Mr. Tashi, the president of Taiwan Tibetan Welfare Association.

According to Tashi, “These people were simply local goons on the payroll of China.”

Order was restored after the organizers called the cops.

“The goons left only after threatening to come back again,” Tashi said.

Beginning yesterday, the three-day event organized by the Hong Kong Tibet Culture Centre also features an exhibition on the series of self-immolation protests in Tibet.

As this report went online, further details about those who disrupted the event were not available. Similarly, no further incidents of disruption were reported.

–Report filed by the Office of Tibet, Taiwan