Sydney activist Danny Lim has been admitted to hospital after an incident allegedly involving the police.
The beloved octogenarian, well-known for wearing colourful placards with slogans promoting ‘peace’ and ‘love’ but also misspelt swear words, confirmed he was in St Vincent’s Hospital waiting for a doctor’s report on his injuries.
The alleged incident unfolded outside the Art Gallery of NSW on Tuesday afternoon.
‘I’m not OK,’ Mr Lim, 80, told Daily Mail Australia from hospital several hours later night.
‘At the moment I am quite confused. I’m scared something is going to happen.’
He claimed the incident involved a security guard and NSW Police and was ‘quite similar to what happened to me in the Queen Victoria Building’ in 2022.
Mr Lim wouldn’t give any further detail about Tuesday’s incident.
NSW Police confirmed that emergency services were called to the Art Gallery on Tuesday to check on the welfare of an 80-year-old man.
Well known activist Danny Lim has been admitted to hospital following an incident involving NSW police
Footage captured the local campaigner being forced to the ground by two NSW Police officers, leaving Mr Lim with a bloodied face and black eye.
Mr Lim suffered bleeding to the brain from the fall and had to use a walking stick for weeks after.
‘The man was spoken to by police and was later taken to hospital by ambulance for assessment,’ a police spokesperson told Daily Mail Australia.
‘No offence was committed and no further action will be taken by police.’
In the previous incident, Mr Lim also ended up in hospital with a subdural haematoma (blood clot) on the brain after two officers violently handcuffed him and threw him to the ground outside the QVB in Sydney’s CBD in November 2022.
A father-of-five was recently fined after he was found guilty of assaulting Mr Lim in a separate incident in 2023.
Ming Wiseman, 66, was found guilty in Burwood Local Court following an altercation at Strathfield train station on September 22 last year despite strenuously denying the allegation and even accusing Mr Lim of faking injuries.
Magistrate Vivien Swain found that Wiseman was not acting in self-defence during the incident after he was seen angrily approaching Mr Lim on the station concourse.
Mr Lim, who is well known around Sydney for sporting signs promoting peace, positivity and progressive political causes, was taken to Concord Hospital following the attack.
The court heard that Mr Lim suffered a red mark to his left eye after being punched by Wiseman while he was out campaigning for the Yes vote for the Voice referendum.
Wiseman was arrested at a Homebush West home the following week and charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
He pleaded not guilty, telling the court that Mr Lim, who was then 79, was the aggressor.
Ming Wiseman (pictured) was found guilty in May of assaulting activist Danny Lim during a train station altercation last September
Wiseman said he was angered by some of Mr Lim’s signs which criticise the government and police – including one former sign which said ‘Police CVN’T’
However Mr Lim denied they were offensive.
‘Have you ever had a sign that says police are c***s,’ Magistrate Swain asked Mr Lim during his evidence.
‘It’s CVN’T,’ Mr Lim replied.
CCTV played to the court showed Wiseman entering through the gates of the station, placing his bag and shopping cart down, before becoming embroiled in a heated argument and pointing at Mr Lim, who was wearing a sandwich board.
Danny Lim was taken to hospital following the station station altercation
Mr Lim told the court in his evidence that he heard someone approaching him from behind swearing at him before he backed up against a wall.
The police prosecution conceded that Mr Lim kicked Wiseman and attempted to throw a punch.
Ms Swain found that Wiseman struck Mr Lim in the face in the ensuing melee.
Wiseman admitted that he was angry as he approached Mr Lim, but denied attacking him, calling the allegations an attempt to ‘frame’ him. The police prosecutor denied these claims.
Danny Lim (pictured) was accused by his attacker of being a ‘disgrace to the Chinese community’ during fiery courtroom scenes on Monday
At one point Wiseman had to be asked by Ms Swain not to yell while giving his evidence as his testimony at times became heated.
The court heard that Mr Lim and Wiseman had been involved in another verbal argument at Strathfield Station earlier the day of the incident.
Ms Swain found that Wiseman was the aggressor and that he had struck Mr Lim.
‘I am satisfied there is not a reasonable possibility his conduct was necessary to defend himself,’ she said.
Wiseman was convicted and fined $200.
Ms Swain also made an 18-month AVO against Wiseman for Mr Lim’s protection.
