Hong Kong (CNN) — Two comparison executives of a nonetheless to be launched journal in Hong Kong were pounded in extended illumination Wednesday, sparking uninformed concerns about press leisure in a city.

The occurrence comes reduction than a month after a Hong Kong publisher was hospitalized after being bleeding by a knife-wielding assailant.

Four organisation carrying steel pipes pounded a dual executives as they took their lunch mangle outward a Science Museum in Tsim Sha Tsui, a vital traveller landmark in a city, military reliable to CNN. A 30-year-old male was arrested Thursday morning in tie with a case.

The victims were identified as Lei Lun-han, aged 46, clamp boss and executive of Hong Kong Morning News Media Group Ltd, and a company’s comparison executive Lam Kin-ming, aged 54. The organisation will launch a news announcement after this year.

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Both organisation were treated for injuries during sanatorium and have given been discharged.

Kevin Lau, a former arch editor of Ming Pao, was pounded with a hatchet as he walked to his automobile final month. Two organisation have been charged with wounding him. He stays in hospital.

Lau had formerly been private from his post during Ming Pao, a internal Hong Kong journal famous for a hard-hitting stating on China. His sacking sparked a criticism by colleagues.

Just days before a attack on Lau, thousands of Hong Kongers took to a streets to denote opposite what they see as fast sharpening efforts by China’s Communist Party to control Hong Kong’s media.

Journalists feel ‘threat’

Shirley Yam, a clamp chairperson of a Hong Kong Journalists Association, told CNN she sees a transparent tie between a attacks and a inlet of a victim’s professions.

“They are a pivotal persons of a paper and they were pounded during a same time,” she said. “Both attack cases are connected to a victims’ jobs.”

She described a attacks as “a threat” to press freedom.

According to a matter from a Hong Kong Foreign Correspondents’ Club, a Hong Kong Morning News was shaped by maestro reporters and is locally saved with no links to a Chinese mainland.

“This latest occurrence usually underscores a deepening shadows being expel over a media landscape in Hong Kong from violence, danger and division by domestic and blurb interests,” a FCC matter added.