Citizen News, an independent Hong Kong news publication, announced on Sunday evening that it will disband by Tuesday. It is the third publication in city that was not aligned with the pro-Beijing c…
news publication, announced on Sunday evening that it will disband by Tuesday. It is the third publication in city that was not aligned with the pro-Beijing camp to close in the space of seven months.
The same message explained that the publication was founded by veteran journalists in 2017 against the backdrop of worries about. But in the past two years concern has grown that Hong Kong, once a lively hub of the news, media and entertainment industries, has lost many of those remaining freedoms. Over the past two years, the Hong Kong government has enacted a National Security Law, changed the electoral system to ensure that only patriots can be elected to public office, and jailed legislators from the pro-democracy camp. It has also introduced national security concerns into the film censorship process., the widely-read pro-democracy newspaper headed by Jimmy Lai, a businessman who has also been jailed for taking part in an illegal demonstration in defiance of coronavirus restrictions.
Multiple government leaders have applauded the arrests and closure of Stand News. But they also insist that press freedom, which is protected in the city’s mini-constitution known as the Basic Law, is alive and well.
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