Hong Kong security chief ups pressure on main press group

Chris Tang claims the financial hub’s journalists’ association is infiltrating schools to recruit students as journalists

A general view showing the Central Business District, in Hong Kong, China, September 15, 2021. Picture: REUTERS/TYRONE SIU

Tang, in an interview with the pro-Beijing newspaper Ta Kung Pao published on Tuesday, said the Hong Kong Journalists’ Association was infiltrating schools to recruit students as journalists. “I believe if they openly let the public know the information, it will clear their name,” Tang told reporters outside the city’s legislative council, referring to details about who the HKJA members work for.Media tycoon Jimmy Lai, a staunch critic of Beijing, is in jail and awaiting trial on national security charges.

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