On October 6, the Taichung District Prosecutors Office indicted Hong Kong man Liao Gang-fa over the July attack on Akio Yaita, accusing a five-person gang of being hired to come to Taiwan to commit violence, intended to kill one to warn a hundred; the Taiwan Affairs Office said in July that the attackers acted "out of righteous indignation."[Transnational Repression][Taichung][Journalist Safety][Akio Yaita][Taiwan Affairs Office]