The 12-year-old boy who volunteered for student-run news organisation Student Depth Media, was accused by an officer of taking part in “illegal child labour” and taken to a nearby police station.
The detention of a 12-year-old boy who identified himself as a student journalist at an anti-government protest on Sunday has put the spotlight on the emergence of child reporters and sparked a debate on launching a press accreditation system in Hong Kong.
If you’re just 12 years old, can you react fast enough when it gets dangerous? I wouldn’t encourage students that young to cover these eventsDuring Sunday’s police clearance action in Mong Kok, there were occasions when dozens of journalists were pointing their cameras at police. Police have accused some people of disguising themselves as reporters while actually staging demonstrations and hindering the force’s operations.
Various journalists’ associations have previously rejected that suggestion, with the chairman of the Hong Kong Journalists Association, Chris Yeung Kin-hing, again making his objections clear again on Monday. He said he only noticed the trend of high school student reporters covering protests recently and was exploring how to help them understand journalistic principles.
Wilson Li Chung-chak, a 23-year-old City University student, has been a student reporter since he was 16. He started writing on technology in 2013 for a website, and went on to write on politics for another outlet after the 2014 Occupy movement that paralysed the city for 79 days.But Li, who now freelances for a British media company, said it could be dangerous for those as young as 12 to cover protests.
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