Three journalist groups issued statements on April 30 condemning the armed attack on The Epoch Times’ printing presses in Hong Kong and called on authorities to bring the perpetrators and the planners of the attack to justice. Four masked men wielding sledgehammers broke into the newspaper’s printing shop around 4 a.m. on April 12, smashed the central control panel of the printing press, and emptied a bag of construction debris on the equipment. The violent breach forced the newspaper to suspend printing days before local pro-democracy activists are due to appear in court. “The violent attack on The Epoch Times’ printing plant in Hong Kong is another worrying example of violence faced by media outlets operating in the city,” Carlos Martinez de la Serna, the program director for the Committee to Protect Journalists, said in a statement. “Hong Kong authorities must take action and bring those responsible for the attack …