Hong Kong Protests Face Divisions, Opposition
As street protests in Hong Kong enter their second month, organizers have scrapped plans for an informal public referendum on what direction the protests should take. Chris Buckley and Alan Wong report...
View ArticleJimmy Lai’s Home Targeted as Arrest Date Nears
A staunch advocate for democracy in Hong Kong, Next Media tycoon Jimmy Lai has been targeted in recent months—both with a graft probe and with detention following his participation in the two-month...
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Minitrue: Do Not Report on Wukan Mass Incident
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. The name of the issuing body has been omitted to protect the source....
View ArticleHK’s Apple Daily Newspaper Raided; Owner, Others Arrested
Jimmy Lai, pro-democracy owner of Hong Kong’s Apple Daily newspaper, was arrested on Monday on suspicion of "colluding with foreign forces." Nine others, including Lai’s sons, were also arrested for...
View ArticleHong Kong Media Comes to Grips with Impact of National Security Law
The arrest of Next Digital publisher Jimmy Lai and the police raid of his Apple Daily offices marked an escalation of the crackdown on Hong Kong’s media freedoms, which entered a new, more active stage...
View ArticleApple Daily’s Headquarters Raided, Executives Arrested, Computers Seized
Apple Daily struck a defiant note after Hong Kong police raided its headquarters, arrested its executives, froze its bank accounts, and seized its journalists’ computers: “[we will] press on till the...
View ArticleApple Daily to Shut Down Within Days, As HK Civil Society Further Collapses
Last Friday, Hong Kong police arrested five Apple Daily executives on national security charges and froze the company’s bank accounts. On Saturday, a Hong Kong magistrate–the same one who presided over...
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Apple Daily Publishes Final Issue Amid Tears, Applause, and Fears for Hong...
Following last week’s arrest of five Apple Daily executives on national security charges and the freezing of the company’s bank accounts, Hong Kong’s last pro-democracy newspaper published its final...
View ArticleTranslations: One Apple Falls, And A Thousand Apples Grow
In a year of wretched milestones for Hong Kong’s civil liberties, this week stands apart, with the closure of Hong Kong’s only pro-democracy legacy newspaper, Apple Daily. From the arrest of five...
View ArticleHong Kong’s Free Media Forced To Self-Censor; First National Security Trial Held
Hong Kong’s National Security Law has been used to cudgel the city’s free media within an inch of its life. What began with a slow effort to pare Hong Kong’s premier broadcast television network RTHK...
View ArticleMore Hong Kong Civil Society Groups Disband Under Pressure of National...
Civil society groups in Hong Kong continue to crumble under the weight of the National Security Law. The latest set of victims come from the spheres of media, civil rights, politics, and education,...
View ArticleMooted SCMP Ownership Change, Death of Southern Weekly Founder, and...
The South China Morning Post (SCMP), Hong Kong’s 118-year-old English-language newspaper of record, may change ownership from private to public hands, according to anonymous sources who spoke with...
View ArticleJimmy Lai and Seven Other Hong Kong Pro-democracy Figures Sentenced for...
On Monday, Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai and seven other pro-democracy figures were sentenced in a Hong Kong district court to prison terms of up to 14 months for taking part in a June 2020 vigil to...
View ArticleHong Kong: Citizen News Closes, Monuments Disappear, Speech Prosecutions...
2022 is off to a bad start for Hong Kong’s free press. The Cantonese Citizen News, one of the few prominent independent news outlets still standing in Hong Kong, was the latest to perish, announcing...
View ArticleFor Hong Kong Journalists, NSL Turns “Red Lines” Into Flashing Red Lights
On Thursday, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) released a report titled “Lights Out: Is This the End for Hong Kong’s Media?” The report documents the various ways that the National...
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