#FreedomofPress #WhiteTerror
Keith Richburg, "If we start self-censoring, they have won"
Keith Richburg, director of the Journalism and Media Studies Centre at HKU and former chairperson for the Foreign Correspondents Club accepted an interview with Stand News, stating that the police force's recent actions have been attempts to demonstrate to the world how it cracks down on cases related to the National Security Law, in order to shock and intimidate the press industry into #SelfCensorship.
Richburg said in the interview that he hopes that journalists will not self-censor while reporting, stating that journalists should continue to "overstep authority" until stopped.
"Unless interviewing Joshua Wong or Nathan Law constitutes a crime, I see no reason to stop reporting them. Journalists must be gutsy. The most dangerous thing a journalist could do is to self-censor themselves."
Source: Stand News #Aug10
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Keith Richburg, "If we start self-censoring, they have won"
Keith Richburg, director of the Journalism and Media Studies Centre at HKU and former chairperson for the Foreign Correspondents Club accepted an interview with Stand News, stating that the police force's recent actions have been attempts to demonstrate to the world how it cracks down on cases related to the National Security Law, in order to shock and intimidate the press industry into #SelfCensorship.
Richburg said in the interview that he hopes that journalists will not self-censor while reporting, stating that journalists should continue to "overstep authority" until stopped.
"Unless interviewing Joshua Wong or Nathan Law constitutes a crime, I see no reason to stop reporting them. Journalists must be gutsy. The most dangerous thing a journalist could do is to self-censor themselves."
Source: Stand News #Aug10
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Keith Richburg: "If we start self-censoring, they have won"
Keith Richburg, director of the Journalism and Media Studies Centre at #HKU and former chairperson for the Foreign Correspondents Club (#FCC) accepted an interview with Stand News, stating that the police force's recent actions have been attempts to demonstrate to the world how it cracks down on cases related to the National Security Law, in order to shock and intimidate the press industry into #SelfCensorship.
Richburg said in the interview that he hopes that journalists will not self-censor while reporting, stating that journalists should continue to "overstep authority" until stopped.
"Unless interviewing Joshua Wong or Nathan Law constitutes a crime, I see no reason to stop reporting them. Journalists must be gutsy. The most dangerous thing a journalist could do is to self-censor themselves."
Many online media have been receiving police interference while reporting on-site over the past year. A good example can be seen when police officers demand for journalists to show their HKJA press card.
Current commissioner of police, Chris Tang, stated in a recent interview that the force will be implementing new measures to allow only "trustworthy media" into the police cordon.
Richburg was shocked by this measure, and it caused him to recall an event that occurred when he first came to Hong Kong. A staff from the Information Services Department contacted him and two other American journalists, and met them lunch. When he asked how he should go about in applying for a press card, the staff replied that Hong Kong does not have a licensing regime for journalists, stating that "We have press freedom. If you are press, you are press."
Richburg stated that Hong Kong has never had a licensing regime for journalists, and that the government and the police should not decide on each press' "trustworthiness". He stated that Hong Kong needs media that monitors the government, stating that "This is surprising, as Hong Kong is a place with a tradition of democracy. It should not be decided by officials like this."
Yet as the implementation of the National Security Law enters its 50th day, Richburg believes that Hong Kong has already become unrecognisable.
Richburg believes that the government is investigating the possibility of a licensing regime for journalists to control journalists and limit press freedom. He stated that although different places such as New York City had established a licensing regime for journalists, allowing press with licenses increased privileges and the right to report within police cordons, the Hong Kong government is trying to use the regime as a tool to restrict press reporting.
Richburg stated that, "If we start self-censoring, they have won," because the public would then #SelfCensor out of fear, as the police sees no need to continue enforcing the law."
Source: Stand News #Aug10
#Professionalism #Journalism #KeithRichburg #Interview
Keith Richburg: "If we start self-censoring, they have won"
Keith Richburg, director of the Journalism and Media Studies Centre at #HKU and former chairperson for the Foreign Correspondents Club (#FCC) accepted an interview with Stand News, stating that the police force's recent actions have been attempts to demonstrate to the world how it cracks down on cases related to the National Security Law, in order to shock and intimidate the press industry into #SelfCensorship.
Richburg said in the interview that he hopes that journalists will not self-censor while reporting, stating that journalists should continue to "overstep authority" until stopped.
"Unless interviewing Joshua Wong or Nathan Law constitutes a crime, I see no reason to stop reporting them. Journalists must be gutsy. The most dangerous thing a journalist could do is to self-censor themselves."
Many online media have been receiving police interference while reporting on-site over the past year. A good example can be seen when police officers demand for journalists to show their HKJA press card.
Current commissioner of police, Chris Tang, stated in a recent interview that the force will be implementing new measures to allow only "trustworthy media" into the police cordon.
Richburg was shocked by this measure, and it caused him to recall an event that occurred when he first came to Hong Kong. A staff from the Information Services Department contacted him and two other American journalists, and met them lunch. When he asked how he should go about in applying for a press card, the staff replied that Hong Kong does not have a licensing regime for journalists, stating that "We have press freedom. If you are press, you are press."
Richburg stated that Hong Kong has never had a licensing regime for journalists, and that the government and the police should not decide on each press' "trustworthiness". He stated that Hong Kong needs media that monitors the government, stating that "This is surprising, as Hong Kong is a place with a tradition of democracy. It should not be decided by officials like this."
Yet as the implementation of the National Security Law enters its 50th day, Richburg believes that Hong Kong has already become unrecognisable.
Richburg believes that the government is investigating the possibility of a licensing regime for journalists to control journalists and limit press freedom. He stated that although different places such as New York City had established a licensing regime for journalists, allowing press with licenses increased privileges and the right to report within police cordons, the Hong Kong government is trying to use the regime as a tool to restrict press reporting.
Richburg stated that, "If we start self-censoring, they have won," because the public would then #SelfCensor out of fear, as the police sees no need to continue enforcing the law."
Source: Stand News #Aug10
#Professionalism #Journalism #KeithRichburg #Interview
#Column #Opinion #Aug25 #SpecialStatus #NationalSecurityLaw
Year 2020: The Stranding and Disconnected World
Image: Apple Daily #Aug10
Previously, Part 1
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/24463
Continue Reading Part 2
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https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/24490
Year 2020: The Stranding and Disconnected World
Image: Apple Daily #Aug10
Previously, Part 1
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/24463
Continue Reading Part 2
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https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/24490
#Column #Opinion #Aug25 #SpecialStatus #NationalSecurityLaw
Year 2020: The Stranding and Disconnected World
Previously, Part 1
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/24463
Part 2
Since the sanction could be mis-enforced, causing unintended consequence, a certain amount of personal data was disclosed alongside the U.S. sanction list so that there would be no excuse for financial institutions worldwide for not locking on the right person and execute sanction.
All at once, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data and Chief Executive Carrie Lam jumped up and cried out their disagreement: it is an infringement of privacy.
Meanwhile, personal data of Apple Daily reporters have been deliberately disclosed on a doxxing website quietly approved by government authorities.
It’s an astonishing coincidence that disclosed data of Apple Daily reporters, including photos and telephone numbers, were provided to China Travel Services for “Home Return Permit” application. Not knowing why, the Privacy Commissioner is stretching his ruling to the U.S. while letting go a doxxing website in Hong Kong.
Is Hong Kong still a metropolitan city? As many countries have lifted their extradition treaties with Hong Kong, is the city still in good capacity to hunt down criminals absconded abroad? Can Hong Kong counteract anyone who intends to harm the interests of Hongkongers or the Hong Kong and Chinese governments?
Image: Apple Daily #Aug10
#US #Sanction #AppleDaily #Doxxing #Privacy
Year 2020: The Stranding and Disconnected World
Previously, Part 1
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/24463
Part 2
Since the sanction could be mis-enforced, causing unintended consequence, a certain amount of personal data was disclosed alongside the U.S. sanction list so that there would be no excuse for financial institutions worldwide for not locking on the right person and execute sanction.
All at once, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data and Chief Executive Carrie Lam jumped up and cried out their disagreement: it is an infringement of privacy.
Meanwhile, personal data of Apple Daily reporters have been deliberately disclosed on a doxxing website quietly approved by government authorities.
It’s an astonishing coincidence that disclosed data of Apple Daily reporters, including photos and telephone numbers, were provided to China Travel Services for “Home Return Permit” application. Not knowing why, the Privacy Commissioner is stretching his ruling to the U.S. while letting go a doxxing website in Hong Kong.
Is Hong Kong still a metropolitan city? As many countries have lifted their extradition treaties with Hong Kong, is the city still in good capacity to hunt down criminals absconded abroad? Can Hong Kong counteract anyone who intends to harm the interests of Hongkongers or the Hong Kong and Chinese governments?
Image: Apple Daily #Aug10
#US #Sanction #AppleDaily #Doxxing #Privacy
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Year 2020: The Stranding and Disconnected World
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Since Beijing's forceful imposition of the National Security Law in Hong Kong, thrusting the new legislation into the city’s constitution the…
Year 2020: The Stranding and Disconnected World
Part 1 - 2
Since Beijing's forceful imposition of the National Security Law in Hong Kong, thrusting the new legislation into the city’s constitution the…
Weaponising of the National Security Law
The arrest of Jimmy Lai has no doubt given us concrete evidence that we are heaving the last breaths of press freedom in Hong Kong.
However, this arrest is based on a very broad, albeit vague national security law that has recently been passed. On the surface, it might seem like another 'arrest of a pro-democracy figure', but it actually is Beijing weaponising this law in a bid to rid Hong Kong's opposition voice.
Source: ABC #Aug10
#Opinion #NationlSecurityLaw #JimmyLai #AppleDaily
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-10/why-chinas-arrest-of-hong-kongs-jimmy-lai-is-important/12541550
The arrest of Jimmy Lai has no doubt given us concrete evidence that we are heaving the last breaths of press freedom in Hong Kong.
However, this arrest is based on a very broad, albeit vague national security law that has recently been passed. On the surface, it might seem like another 'arrest of a pro-democracy figure', but it actually is Beijing weaponising this law in a bid to rid Hong Kong's opposition voice.
Source: ABC #Aug10
#Opinion #NationlSecurityLaw #JimmyLai #AppleDaily
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-10/why-chinas-arrest-of-hong-kongs-jimmy-lai-is-important/12541550
#FirstHand #Aug10
#HongKongAthletes Return Home from #TokyoOlympics
On August 10, 2021, some of the Hong Kong athletes representing the Team Hong Kong in Tokyo Olympics returned home.
This year, 46 Hong Kong athletes entered the Olympic Games and the team has achieved s historic result of 1gold, 2 silver and 2 bronze medals, breaking the city's record since Hong Kong joined the Olympics as an individual team in 1952. The city's first and only gold medal was won in 1996.
Among them was Grace Lau Mo-seung who won a Brozen Medal in the "Kata" event. Her family took a photo with her while respecting social distance. The returned athletes then had to go through a quarantine.
#Hongkonger
#HongKongAthletes Return Home from #TokyoOlympics
On August 10, 2021, some of the Hong Kong athletes representing the Team Hong Kong in Tokyo Olympics returned home.
This year, 46 Hong Kong athletes entered the Olympic Games and the team has achieved s historic result of 1gold, 2 silver and 2 bronze medals, breaking the city's record since Hong Kong joined the Olympics as an individual team in 1952. The city's first and only gold medal was won in 1996.
Among them was Grace Lau Mo-seung who won a Brozen Medal in the "Kata" event. Her family took a photo with her while respecting social distance. The returned athletes then had to go through a quarantine.
#Hongkonger
#Education #WhiteTerror
[Union Disbanded] #EducationBureau Chief Calls Hong Kong Teachers to "Reconsider" If the Pro-democracy Union Represents Themselves
[Latest Update: The Hong Kong Professional Teachers' Union (#HKPTU) announced its disbandment at around 16:30 on August 10, 2021, following attacks from Beijing and Hong Kong government]
Kevin Yeung, the Hong Kong SAR Government's Secretary of Education, sent a letter to all Hong Kong teachers, calling on "careful consideration" of speech and actions of the Hong Kong Professional Teachers' Union (#HKPTU) in recent years, and pondering over whether the union can "represent" themselves.
He also claimed that all information, services, and enquiries "could be provided" by other organisations.
The HKPTU currently consists of 95,000 members, and the membership needs to be renewed every year. Each membership is valid from September 1 to August 31.
The letter from Yeung was titled "Adhering the Profession and Pursuing the Truth Together". The whole letter targets the HKPTU. He said that education had been "robbed" for years, some organisations "performed politics in the name of the educational profession", and that they "did not stop the violation of the teaching profession and the disregard for the well-being of students". He claimed that the HKPTU "directly or indirectly pushes teachers into illegal activities, being arrested and imprisoned".
#KevinYeung #Defamation #Censorship #PoliceState
Source: InmediaHK #Aug05 ; Now News #Aug10
https://bit.ly/37m22Ud
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HK Government Cut Ties with Professional Teachers' Union After China Calls it "Cancer"
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[Union Disbanded] #EducationBureau Chief Calls Hong Kong Teachers to "Reconsider" If the Pro-democracy Union Represents Themselves
[Latest Update: The Hong Kong Professional Teachers' Union (#HKPTU) announced its disbandment at around 16:30 on August 10, 2021, following attacks from Beijing and Hong Kong government]
Kevin Yeung, the Hong Kong SAR Government's Secretary of Education, sent a letter to all Hong Kong teachers, calling on "careful consideration" of speech and actions of the Hong Kong Professional Teachers' Union (#HKPTU) in recent years, and pondering over whether the union can "represent" themselves.
He also claimed that all information, services, and enquiries "could be provided" by other organisations.
The HKPTU currently consists of 95,000 members, and the membership needs to be renewed every year. Each membership is valid from September 1 to August 31.
The letter from Yeung was titled "Adhering the Profession and Pursuing the Truth Together". The whole letter targets the HKPTU. He said that education had been "robbed" for years, some organisations "performed politics in the name of the educational profession", and that they "did not stop the violation of the teaching profession and the disregard for the well-being of students". He claimed that the HKPTU "directly or indirectly pushes teachers into illegal activities, being arrested and imprisoned".
#KevinYeung #Defamation #Censorship #PoliceState
Source: InmediaHK #Aug05 ; Now News #Aug10
https://bit.ly/37m22Ud
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HK Government Cut Ties with Professional Teachers' Union After China Calls it "Cancer"
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/30674
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楊潤雄去信全港教師 籲「深思教協能否代表自己」 | 獨媒報導 | 獨立媒體
（獨媒報導）教育局局長楊潤雄今日對全港學校教師發信，呼籲審慎考慮教協近年的言論和行徑，深思教協是否能代表自己，更稱教師所需的資訊、服務和協助，並非只有教協能提供。教協目前有9.5萬會員，而教協會籍需每年更新，每年的會籍有效期為九月一日至八月三十一日。 楊潤雄的信以「秉持專業 攜手同行 正本清源」為題，全信皆以教協為針對目標。他指教育近年被「騎劫」，有組
#WhiteTerror #PoliticalSuppression
The Hong Kong Professional Teachers' Union Disbands After Attacks by Beijing and Hong Kong Authorities
Following Beijing's attack on Hong Kong's largest teachers' union, the Hong Kong government has immediately cut ties with the association, which has been providing support and training for teachers in Hong Kong for almost half a century.
Many considered that the Union's support for democratic values has turned the group intk a target of pro-Establishment and pro-Beijing voices.
It started with July 31, 2021, China's state media People's Daily and Xinhua News Agency published opinion pieces against the Hong Kong Professional Teachers' Union (#HKPTU), calling it "a cancer that must be removed".
By the afternoon, the Education Bureau of the Hong Kong government announced it
that it is terminating its working relationship with the local teachers' Union.
Read more
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/30674
In the following days, Hong Kong's chief executive #CarrieLam and #EducationBureau chief #KevinYeung continued to accuse the union and dissuade teachers from being affiliated with it.
Read more:
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/30763
On August 10, 2021, at around 16:30, the 48-year-old union, the largest one for teachers in Hong Kong, announced its disbandment.
Source: Stand News #Aug10
https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=894361151160357
#PoliceState #Censorship #Education #Regime
The Hong Kong Professional Teachers' Union Disbands After Attacks by Beijing and Hong Kong Authorities
Following Beijing's attack on Hong Kong's largest teachers' union, the Hong Kong government has immediately cut ties with the association, which has been providing support and training for teachers in Hong Kong for almost half a century.
Many considered that the Union's support for democratic values has turned the group intk a target of pro-Establishment and pro-Beijing voices.
It started with July 31, 2021, China's state media People's Daily and Xinhua News Agency published opinion pieces against the Hong Kong Professional Teachers' Union (#HKPTU), calling it "a cancer that must be removed".
By the afternoon, the Education Bureau of the Hong Kong government announced it
that it is terminating its working relationship with the local teachers' Union.
Read more
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/30674
In the following days, Hong Kong's chief executive #CarrieLam and #EducationBureau chief #KevinYeung continued to accuse the union and dissuade teachers from being affiliated with it.
Read more:
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/30763
On August 10, 2021, at around 16:30, the 48-year-old union, the largest one for teachers in Hong Kong, announced its disbandment.
Source: Stand News #Aug10
https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=894361151160357
#PoliceState #Censorship #Education #Regime
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#PoliceState #Censorship
HK Government Cut Ties with Professional Teachers' Union After China Calls it "Cancer"
On the morning of July 31, 2021, China's state media People's Daily and Xinhua News Agency published opinion pieces against the Hong Kong Professional…
HK Government Cut Ties with Professional Teachers' Union After China Calls it "Cancer"
On the morning of July 31, 2021, China's state media People's Daily and Xinhua News Agency published opinion pieces against the Hong Kong Professional…
Opinion | Why Is China Coming After Americans Like Me in the U.S.? (Published 2020)
On Thursday, July 30, I fell asleep watching reruns of “Law and Order.” The next morning, I woke up a fugitive.
Chinese state television said that the Hong Kong authorities had issued arrest warrants for six activists who promote democracy for that supposedly semi-autonomous region.
I was one of the six. The charges? “Inciting secession” and “colluding with foreign powers” — part of the National Security Law imposed on July 1 by the Chinese Communist Party. Both crimes are punishable by up to life in prison.
It doesn’t matter that I’ve been an American citizen for 25 years — having left Hong Kong in 1990 to live in the United States.
Source: NY Times #Aug10
https://t.co/3VOwIJDPJc
#China #American #US
On Thursday, July 30, I fell asleep watching reruns of “Law and Order.” The next morning, I woke up a fugitive.
Chinese state television said that the Hong Kong authorities had issued arrest warrants for six activists who promote democracy for that supposedly semi-autonomous region.
I was one of the six. The charges? “Inciting secession” and “colluding with foreign powers” — part of the National Security Law imposed on July 1 by the Chinese Communist Party. Both crimes are punishable by up to life in prison.
It doesn’t matter that I’ve been an American citizen for 25 years — having left Hong Kong in 1990 to live in the United States.
Source: NY Times #Aug10
https://t.co/3VOwIJDPJc
#China #American #US
Cambodia: China’s ‘Belt and Road’ Dam is a Rights Disaster
A large-scale, Chinese-financed hydroelectric dam in northeastern Cambodia, completed in 2018, has undermined the lives and livelihoods of thousands of Indigenous and ethnic minority people, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The Lower Sesan 2 dam, one of Asia’s widest dams, flooded large areas upstream of the confluence of the Sesan and Srepok Rivers, two tributaries of the Mekong River.
Source: Human Rights Warch #Aug10
https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/08/10/cambodia-chinas-belt-and-road-dam-rights-disaster
#China #BeltAndRoad #Sesan #Srepok #Mekong
A large-scale, Chinese-financed hydroelectric dam in northeastern Cambodia, completed in 2018, has undermined the lives and livelihoods of thousands of Indigenous and ethnic minority people, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The Lower Sesan 2 dam, one of Asia’s widest dams, flooded large areas upstream of the confluence of the Sesan and Srepok Rivers, two tributaries of the Mekong River.
Source: Human Rights Warch #Aug10
https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/08/10/cambodia-chinas-belt-and-road-dam-rights-disaster
#China #BeltAndRoad #Sesan #Srepok #Mekong