{"id":24558,"date":"2009-01-28T11:04:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-28T11:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amateurphotographer.co.uk\/uncategorized\/chinese-new-year-slows-mugabe-photo-probe-24558"},"modified":"2014-09-02T17:36:53","modified_gmt":"2014-09-02T16:36:53","slug":"chinese-new-year-slows-mugabe-photo-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/latest\/photo-news\/chinese-new-year-slows-mugabe-photo-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese New Year &#8216;slows&#8217; Mugabe photo probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The British photographer who claims he was attacked by the wife of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe believes that the Chinese New Year has slowed police investigations into the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Jones was left with cuts and bruises to his face after the <a href=\"http:\/\/amateurphotographer.co.uk\/news\/police_investigate_mugabe_photographer_attack_news_275321.html\" title=\"Photographer 'attacked' by Mugabe\">alleged assault<\/a> by Grace Mugabe in Hong Kong earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Jones told <em>Amateur Photographer<\/em>: ?It is Chinese New Year at the moment so everything is slow and even stopped. It?s a week?s holiday.?<\/p>\n<p>At the time of the incident the photographer had been on assignment for the <em>Sunday Times<\/em> newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>He added: ?News International has employed a lawyer. My colleague Tim O?Rourke [photographer], who was also assaulted and Michael Sheridan [the newspaper?s Asia correspondent] have given statements and I gave a second statement.?<\/p>\n<p>Jones told us that an ?independent witness?, who was a couple of metres from the incident, has now come forward.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after the alleged attack Hong Kong police issued newspapers with a statement, but only to confirm that ?an assault occasioning actual bodily harm? had occurred.<\/p>\n<p>Jones, who runs the Hong Kong-based photo agency Sinopix, was unable to comment further while investigations continue.<\/p>\n<p>Related article:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amateurphotographer.co.uk\/news\/police_investigate_mugabe_photographer_attack_news_275321.html\" title=\"Photographer 'attacked' by Mugabe\">Police probe Mugabe photographer attack<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British photographer who claims he was attacked by the wife of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe believes that the Chinese New Year has slowed police investigations into the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":323,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"product-category":[],"class_list":["post-24558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.8 (Yoast SEO v26.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Chinese New Year &#039;slows&#039; 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