Despite CCP claims to the contrary, civil society, free speech and political participation have all taken a massive hit in HongKong’s national security crackdown.
its Hong Kong office in October 2021, saying the NSL made it “effectively impossible” to work “freely and without fear of serious reprisals from the government.”Beijing had broken its promise “to respect the city’s freedoms – a guarantee enshrined in the territory’s functional constitution – and rights protected in the Basic Law.”at least 58 organizations, “including unions, churches, media groups, and political parties,” had disbanded since the NSL came into force.
“The Hong Kong government has engaged in an unprecedented campaign against independent journalism in total disregard for the territory’s Basic Law, which enshrines the principle of press freedom,” wrote Reporters Without Borders East Asia Bureau head, Cedric Alviani. That crackdown on journalism included the forcible closure of two independent media outlets, Apple Daily and Stand News.“nurture patriotism.”
Hong Kong dropped to 148th place on the 2022 RSF World Press Freedom Index, down from 80th place in 2021.to 13 months in jail for “incitement to knowingly take part in an unauthorized assembly” during Hong Kong’s June 2020 Tiananmen Square candlelight vigil.Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai, center, who founded the Apple Daily, is arrested by police officers at his home in Hong Kong on April 18, 2020. 203 people had been arrested and 123 charged under the NSL as of June 26.
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