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#AppleDaily: "Fight Til the End"
Hongkongers Queue up to Buy Apply Daily to Show Support
At 00:10 on August 11, 2020, Apple Daily staff were working towards the publication of the daily newspaper, despite the massive police raid at Apple Daily Headquarters and the mass arrest of #NextMedia's founder #JimmyLai, his two sons, Next Media's CEO and COO and others.
At around 00:15, Next Media released a visual statement on facebook, sending the message "Fight til the end" under the menace of the National Security Law.
At 02:34, the August 11 edition of Apple Daily was released. The frontpage headlined the police arrest of 10 people including the newspaper's founder on the claim of infringing the national security law.
Apple Daily is printing 350,000 copies, compared to the average 70,000 copies.
In Mongkok, tens of Hongkongers queued up to buy Apple Daily to show their support at 2am. Some people even rode a taxi to the newspaper stalls to make sure they can get a copy.
Source: Apple Daily; RTHK #Aug11
Hongkongers Queue up to Buy Apply Daily to Show Support
At 00:10 on August 11, 2020, Apple Daily staff were working towards the publication of the daily newspaper, despite the massive police raid at Apple Daily Headquarters and the mass arrest of #NextMedia's founder #JimmyLai, his two sons, Next Media's CEO and COO and others.
At around 00:15, Next Media released a visual statement on facebook, sending the message "Fight til the end" under the menace of the National Security Law.
At 02:34, the August 11 edition of Apple Daily was released. The frontpage headlined the police arrest of 10 people including the newspaper's founder on the claim of infringing the national security law.
Apple Daily is printing 350,000 copies, compared to the average 70,000 copies.
In Mongkok, tens of Hongkongers queued up to buy Apple Daily to show their support at 2am. Some people even rode a taxi to the newspaper stalls to make sure they can get a copy.
Source: Apple Daily; RTHK #Aug11
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#FirstHand #Aug12
Pro-democracy Media Tycoon Jimmy Lai Released on Bail
00:20 | Mongkok Police Station
Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai was arrested by the police over the allegation of national security violation on August 10.
The video captured the moment he stepped out of the police station after midnight on Aug 12 and was immediately surrounded by the media.
Some citizens held out Apple Daily outside of the police station to show support.
#JimmyLai #AppleDaily #NationalSecurityLaw
Pro-democracy Media Tycoon Jimmy Lai Released on Bail
00:20 | Mongkok Police Station
Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai was arrested by the police over the allegation of national security violation on August 10.
The video captured the moment he stepped out of the police station after midnight on Aug 12 and was immediately surrounded by the media.
Some citizens held out Apple Daily outside of the police station to show support.
#JimmyLai #AppleDaily #NationalSecurityLaw
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#GlobalSupport
The Ultraman Taro actor Saburo Shinoda wrote in his blog, “In Hong Kong, those symbolic people in democracy movement like Angnes Chow Ting, founder of Next Media, Jimmy Lai Chee-ying have been arrested for the violation of the National Security Law. Even they have been released on bail quickly, there is still a long way to go. It’s pretty scary! The World should pay attention to that and protect them.”
Source: Facebook
Translated by: Hong Kong Echo
Further reading:
A note of thanks to Kyoko Koizumi for sharing the petition agianst the Hong Kong National Security Law
https://twitter.com/hongkongecho/status/1290753907296047104?s=21
#SaburoShinoda #UltramanTaro #Japan #FreeAngnes #JimmyLai #nationalsecuritylaw
The Ultraman Taro actor Saburo Shinoda wrote in his blog, “In Hong Kong, those symbolic people in democracy movement like Angnes Chow Ting, founder of Next Media, Jimmy Lai Chee-ying have been arrested for the violation of the National Security Law. Even they have been released on bail quickly, there is still a long way to go. It’s pretty scary! The World should pay attention to that and protect them.”
Source: Facebook
Translated by: Hong Kong Echo
Further reading:
A note of thanks to Kyoko Koizumi for sharing the petition agianst the Hong Kong National Security Law
https://twitter.com/hongkongecho/status/1290753907296047104?s=21
#SaburoShinoda #UltramanTaro #Japan #FreeAngnes #JimmyLai #nationalsecuritylaw
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#Court #LegalTerrorism
Barrister Worries National Security Law’s Imprisonment Before conviction: ‘To be released on bail is basic human rights’
The Hong Kong judicial system has been adhering to the principle of presumption of innocence, in which a defendant is innocent before conviction and should not be imprisoned unless there is sufficient reason to do so.
However, Jimmy Lai, founder of Apple Daily, who was charged by the police for fraud, as well as several defendants in cases related to the National Security Law were all denied bail by appointed judges and are imprisoned without trial.
A barrister worried that if the defendants whom the prosecution alleges are involved in a national security case will be denied bail, citizens will question whether the court has been reduced to merely symbolic.
Human rights organizations have also been heavily criticizing that these imprisonment before conviction are a serious violation of human rights.
The National Security appointed judge, Chief Magistrate Victor So denied Jimmy Lai’s application for bail. Lai will be remanded in custody until April 2021, which means he will be imprisoned for at least 4 months.
The senior officers of Next Digital, Chow Tat Kuen and Wong Wai Keung who were also charged with fraud were granted bail.
Source: Apple Daily #Dec4
https://hk.appledaily.com/local/20201204/B34MREBSERBMDJE7FMX42JAAWM/
#NationalSecurityLaw #FreeJimmy #JimmyLai #Judge #Injustice #Bail
Barrister Worries National Security Law’s Imprisonment Before conviction: ‘To be released on bail is basic human rights’
The Hong Kong judicial system has been adhering to the principle of presumption of innocence, in which a defendant is innocent before conviction and should not be imprisoned unless there is sufficient reason to do so.
However, Jimmy Lai, founder of Apple Daily, who was charged by the police for fraud, as well as several defendants in cases related to the National Security Law were all denied bail by appointed judges and are imprisoned without trial.
A barrister worried that if the defendants whom the prosecution alleges are involved in a national security case will be denied bail, citizens will question whether the court has been reduced to merely symbolic.
Human rights organizations have also been heavily criticizing that these imprisonment before conviction are a serious violation of human rights.
The National Security appointed judge, Chief Magistrate Victor So denied Jimmy Lai’s application for bail. Lai will be remanded in custody until April 2021, which means he will be imprisoned for at least 4 months.
The senior officers of Next Digital, Chow Tat Kuen and Wong Wai Keung who were also charged with fraud were granted bail.
Source: Apple Daily #Dec4
https://hk.appledaily.com/local/20201204/B34MREBSERBMDJE7FMX42JAAWM/
#NationalSecurityLaw #FreeJimmy #JimmyLai #Judge #Injustice #Bail
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#FreeJimmyLai
#Taiwan President #TsaiIngWen: Staying true to my insistence on the value of democracy and freedom, I want to openly voice my support for Mr. Jimmy Lai
In a social media post on December 16, 2020, Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen talked about a recent photo of Jimmy Lai, the founder of Next Digital, who was charged with a suspected violation of the Hong Kong National Security Law.
In the photo, Lai was being handcuffed and entangled in a metal chain around his waist on his way to court. Tsai said that the photo was "infuriating".
Tsai said, "the Human Rights Day has just passed, but Hong Kong's human rights are still in its butter winter. Staying true to my insistence on the value of democracy and freedom, I want to openly voice my support for Mr. Jimmy Lai. I want to let him know that the whole of Taiwan, and the whole world are watching this scene. It is not Mr. Lai who was humiliated, but Hong Kong's freedom and the rule of law."
Source: Citizen News #Dec16
https://www.hkcnews.com/article/36489/%E8%94%A1%E8%8B%B1%E6%96%87-%E9%BB%8E%E6%99%BA%E8%8B%B1-36489/%E9%BB%8E%E6%99%BA%E8%8B%B1
#AppleDaily #HumanitarianCrisis #PoliceState #HumanitarianCrisis #JimmyLai #Arrests #PoliticalProsecution
#Taiwan President #TsaiIngWen: Staying true to my insistence on the value of democracy and freedom, I want to openly voice my support for Mr. Jimmy Lai
In a social media post on December 16, 2020, Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen talked about a recent photo of Jimmy Lai, the founder of Next Digital, who was charged with a suspected violation of the Hong Kong National Security Law.
In the photo, Lai was being handcuffed and entangled in a metal chain around his waist on his way to court. Tsai said that the photo was "infuriating".
Tsai said, "the Human Rights Day has just passed, but Hong Kong's human rights are still in its butter winter. Staying true to my insistence on the value of democracy and freedom, I want to openly voice my support for Mr. Jimmy Lai. I want to let him know that the whole of Taiwan, and the whole world are watching this scene. It is not Mr. Lai who was humiliated, but Hong Kong's freedom and the rule of law."
Source: Citizen News #Dec16
https://www.hkcnews.com/article/36489/%E8%94%A1%E8%8B%B1%E6%96%87-%E9%BB%8E%E6%99%BA%E8%8B%B1-36489/%E9%BB%8E%E6%99%BA%E8%8B%B1
#AppleDaily #HumanitarianCrisis #PoliceState #HumanitarianCrisis #JimmyLai #Arrests #PoliticalProsecution
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#WhiteTerror #FrozenAsset
#Reuters: HK’s Pro-democracy Newspaper #AppleDaily to shut within days according to #JimmyLai adviser
//Hong Kong pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily will be forced to shut “in a matter of days” after authorities froze the company’s assets under a national security law, Mark Simon, an adviser to jailed owner Jimmy Lai told Reuters on June 21, 2021.
The closure of Apple Daily would undermine the former British colony's reputation as an open and free society and send a warning to other companies that could be accused of colluding with a foreign country, media advocacy groups said.
Next Digital (0282.HK), publisher of the top-selling 26-year-old newspaper, would hold a board meeting on Monday [June 21, 2021] to discuss how to move forward after its lines of credit were frozen, the adviser, Mark Simon, said.
"Vendors tried to put money into our accounts and were rejected," he said by phone from the United States.
"We thought we'd be able to make it to the end of the month. It's just getting harder and harder. It's essentially a matter of days."
Apple Daily said on Sunday the freezing of its assets had left the liberal newspaper with cash for “a few weeks” for normal operations.”
In May, Reuters reported exclusively that Hong Kong's security chief had sent letters to tycoon Lai and branches of HSBC and Citibank threatening up to seven years' jail for any dealings with the billionaire's accounts in the city...
Authorities are also prosecuting three companies related to Apple Daily for alleged collusion with a foreign country and have frozen HK$18 million ($2.3 million) of their assets...
Simon told Reuters it had now become impossible to conduct banking operations in the global financial hub.
"We can't bank. Some vendors tried to do that as a favour ... and it was rejected."
The newspaper has come under increasing pressure since owner and Beijing critic Lai, who is now in jail, was arrested under the national security law last August and has since had some of his assets frozen...
Simon said some reporters had received threatening phone calls from unknown sources.
"Our staff are now just worried about personal safety," he said...//
Read full article:
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/exclusive-adviser-jailed-hk-tycoon-jimmy-lai-says-apple-daily-shut-within-days-2021-06-21/
Source: Reuters #Jun21
#PoliceState #NationalSecurityLaw #PressFreedom #HongKongMedia #Journalism #PoliticalSuppression #MarkSimon #FreeJimmy
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[June 17, 2021] HK Police Raids Apple Daily Again and Arrests 3 Editors and 2 Executives
https://publielectoral.lat/guardiansofhongkong/30130
"We Will Press On": Apple Daily Prints 500,000 Copies Despite Police Raid
https://publielectoral.lat/guardiansofhongkong/30142
Hongkongers Rush to Support Apple Daily After Midnight
https://publielectoral.lat/guardiansofhongkong/30140
[June 18, 2021] HK Police Charges Apple Daily Editor-in-chief and #NextDigital CEO with #NationalSecurityLaw
https://publielectoral.lat/guardiansofhongkong/30149
#Reuters: HK’s Pro-democracy Newspaper #AppleDaily to shut within days according to #JimmyLai adviser
//Hong Kong pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily will be forced to shut “in a matter of days” after authorities froze the company’s assets under a national security law, Mark Simon, an adviser to jailed owner Jimmy Lai told Reuters on June 21, 2021.
The closure of Apple Daily would undermine the former British colony's reputation as an open and free society and send a warning to other companies that could be accused of colluding with a foreign country, media advocacy groups said.
Next Digital (0282.HK), publisher of the top-selling 26-year-old newspaper, would hold a board meeting on Monday [June 21, 2021] to discuss how to move forward after its lines of credit were frozen, the adviser, Mark Simon, said.
"Vendors tried to put money into our accounts and were rejected," he said by phone from the United States.
"We thought we'd be able to make it to the end of the month. It's just getting harder and harder. It's essentially a matter of days."
Apple Daily said on Sunday the freezing of its assets had left the liberal newspaper with cash for “a few weeks” for normal operations.”
In May, Reuters reported exclusively that Hong Kong's security chief had sent letters to tycoon Lai and branches of HSBC and Citibank threatening up to seven years' jail for any dealings with the billionaire's accounts in the city...
Authorities are also prosecuting three companies related to Apple Daily for alleged collusion with a foreign country and have frozen HK$18 million ($2.3 million) of their assets...
Simon told Reuters it had now become impossible to conduct banking operations in the global financial hub.
"We can't bank. Some vendors tried to do that as a favour ... and it was rejected."
The newspaper has come under increasing pressure since owner and Beijing critic Lai, who is now in jail, was arrested under the national security law last August and has since had some of his assets frozen...
Simon said some reporters had received threatening phone calls from unknown sources.
"Our staff are now just worried about personal safety," he said...//
Read full article:
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/exclusive-adviser-jailed-hk-tycoon-jimmy-lai-says-apple-daily-shut-within-days-2021-06-21/
Source: Reuters #Jun21
#PoliceState #NationalSecurityLaw #PressFreedom #HongKongMedia #Journalism #PoliticalSuppression #MarkSimon #FreeJimmy
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[June 17, 2021] HK Police Raids Apple Daily Again and Arrests 3 Editors and 2 Executives
https://publielectoral.lat/guardiansofhongkong/30130
"We Will Press On": Apple Daily Prints 500,000 Copies Despite Police Raid
https://publielectoral.lat/guardiansofhongkong/30142
Hongkongers Rush to Support Apple Daily After Midnight
https://publielectoral.lat/guardiansofhongkong/30140
[June 18, 2021] HK Police Charges Apple Daily Editor-in-chief and #NextDigital CEO with #NationalSecurityLaw
https://publielectoral.lat/guardiansofhongkong/30149
Reuters
EXCLUSIVE HK’s Apple Daily to shut within days, says Jimmy Lai adviser
Hong Kong pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily will be forced to shut "in a matter of days" after authorities froze the company's assets under a national security law, an adviser to jailed owner Jimmy Lai told Reuters on Monday.
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#Hongkongers
Pro-democracy media chief: “We’ve tried and enjoyed media freedom in the past. We have no regrets.”
#LouiseWong Lai-Sheung, editor-in-chief of the #NextMagazine in Hong Kong wrote an open letter on the magazine’s Facebook on June 23, 2021 to bid farewell to readers.
Wong wrote that the Magazine has gone through many tough times in the past, including deep profit losses in 2016. Back then, vocal media tycoon, #JimmyLai Chee-yin, owner of the Next Magazine “warned” to roll-off the magazine and set a timeline to put pressure on his staff to work hard. Wong wrote, “He knows we are “attached” to the magazine. Not letting it fold is our biggest motivation.”
Wong continued in her letter, it took them 3 years to “remodel it” from traditional magazine to online media when readership and profits gradually picked up and meeting new highs. When subscription model was first put in place in Next Magazine in 2019, they were surprised to acquired over 100,000 subscribers. Despite that the magazine could not turn around its profits, but reduce loss.
Until June 21, “the editorial believes the big era has come to an end.”
Wong expressed in the letter that she is a sentimental person. But she didn’t shed tears. In the office that filled with shocks and anxieties, she told herself to remain calm and get on to an exit plan. Facing those staff who are still hopeful to continue operating the Magazine, she couldn’t help but told them to cut it off. “We’ve tried in the past and enjoyed media freedom. We have no regrets.”
Source: Apple Daily, #Jun23
https://bit.ly/3gVDndz
#SaveAppleDaily #ProtectAppleDaily #Journalism #PressFreedom
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National Security Police Arrests News Commentator; Pro-democracy #AppleDaily Will Shut Down In One Day
https://publielectoral.lat/guardiansofhongkong/30198
Pro-democracy media chief: “We’ve tried and enjoyed media freedom in the past. We have no regrets.”
#LouiseWong Lai-Sheung, editor-in-chief of the #NextMagazine in Hong Kong wrote an open letter on the magazine’s Facebook on June 23, 2021 to bid farewell to readers.
Wong wrote that the Magazine has gone through many tough times in the past, including deep profit losses in 2016. Back then, vocal media tycoon, #JimmyLai Chee-yin, owner of the Next Magazine “warned” to roll-off the magazine and set a timeline to put pressure on his staff to work hard. Wong wrote, “He knows we are “attached” to the magazine. Not letting it fold is our biggest motivation.”
Wong continued in her letter, it took them 3 years to “remodel it” from traditional magazine to online media when readership and profits gradually picked up and meeting new highs. When subscription model was first put in place in Next Magazine in 2019, they were surprised to acquired over 100,000 subscribers. Despite that the magazine could not turn around its profits, but reduce loss.
Until June 21, “the editorial believes the big era has come to an end.”
Wong expressed in the letter that she is a sentimental person. But she didn’t shed tears. In the office that filled with shocks and anxieties, she told herself to remain calm and get on to an exit plan. Facing those staff who are still hopeful to continue operating the Magazine, she couldn’t help but told them to cut it off. “We’ve tried in the past and enjoyed media freedom. We have no regrets.”
Source: Apple Daily, #Jun23
https://bit.ly/3gVDndz
#SaveAppleDaily #ProtectAppleDaily #Journalism #PressFreedom
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National Security Police Arrests News Commentator; Pro-democracy #AppleDaily Will Shut Down In One Day
https://publielectoral.lat/guardiansofhongkong/30198
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The timeline of Apple Daily being shut down under the Hong Kong National Security Law.
#NationalSecurityLaw #JimmyLai #AppleDaily #GoHKgraphics
#NationalSecurityLaw #JimmyLai #AppleDaily #GoHKgraphics
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#Award
#AppleDaily Founder #JimmyLai awarded 2021 Gwen Ifill Press Freedom Award
The Committee to Protect Journalists (#CPJ) awarded Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai, who is currently in jail, the 2021 Gwen Ifill Press Freedom Award on November 19, 2021 for his extraordinary and sustained achievement in the cause of press freedom.
Complimenting Lai's achievement, CPJ said, "Lai has become a powerful symbol of the struggle to maintain press freedom in Hong Kong as China’s Communist Party exerts ever greater control over the territory."
The Committee further stated that "In prison, denied bail, the outspoken critic of the Chinese government and advocate for democracy faces charges that could keep him in jail for the rest of his life."
Source: Stand News; #Nov18
https://bit.ly/3nXrw3D
#Recognition #PressFreedom #Arrestee #Dissident #GwenIfill
#AppleDaily Founder #JimmyLai awarded 2021 Gwen Ifill Press Freedom Award
The Committee to Protect Journalists (#CPJ) awarded Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai, who is currently in jail, the 2021 Gwen Ifill Press Freedom Award on November 19, 2021 for his extraordinary and sustained achievement in the cause of press freedom.
Complimenting Lai's achievement, CPJ said, "Lai has become a powerful symbol of the struggle to maintain press freedom in Hong Kong as China’s Communist Party exerts ever greater control over the territory."
The Committee further stated that "In prison, denied bail, the outspoken critic of the Chinese government and advocate for democracy faces charges that could keep him in jail for the rest of his life."
Source: Stand News; #Nov18
https://bit.ly/3nXrw3D
#Recognition #PressFreedom #Arrestee #Dissident #GwenIfill
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#PressFreedom #Award
Jimmy Lai and Apple Daily Editors win Golden Pen of Freedom Award
Hong Kong media mogul #JimmyLai and the staff of the shuttered Apple Daily newsroom have been awarded the Golden Pen of Freedom, the annual press freedom award of the World Association of News Publishers.
Lai, who founded #AppleDaily, has been detained for nearly a year on charges under the National Security Law, including colluding with foreign forces and endangering national security. He is expected to spend his 74th birthday on Dec 8 behind bars.
Lai’s son, Sebastien Lai, accepted the award on behalf of his father. He said that “journalism is at the forefront of history,” and that “it records the present and informs the future. It is a check against the powerful, and the voice of the people in times of strife.”
Apple Daily, one of Hong Kong’s most popular Chinese-language newspapers, closed in June after authorities used the controversial National Security Law to arrest the editor-in-chief and four other senior executives.
“With Apple Daily closing in Hong Kong, and a crackdown against journalism across the region, there will be less and less people shining light in these dark corners.”
Sebastien Lai said, adding “Thank you very much for this award but please keep dad, the Apple Daily newsroom in Hong Kong, and the people of Hong Kong in your thoughts as these events unfold.”
#GoldenPen #Media #Award #PoliticalOppression #NationalSecurityLaw
Source: Citizen News; #Dec2
https://bit.ly/3EkUSyy
Jimmy Lai and Apple Daily Editors win Golden Pen of Freedom Award
Hong Kong media mogul #JimmyLai and the staff of the shuttered Apple Daily newsroom have been awarded the Golden Pen of Freedom, the annual press freedom award of the World Association of News Publishers.
Lai, who founded #AppleDaily, has been detained for nearly a year on charges under the National Security Law, including colluding with foreign forces and endangering national security. He is expected to spend his 74th birthday on Dec 8 behind bars.
Lai’s son, Sebastien Lai, accepted the award on behalf of his father. He said that “journalism is at the forefront of history,” and that “it records the present and informs the future. It is a check against the powerful, and the voice of the people in times of strife.”
Apple Daily, one of Hong Kong’s most popular Chinese-language newspapers, closed in June after authorities used the controversial National Security Law to arrest the editor-in-chief and four other senior executives.
“With Apple Daily closing in Hong Kong, and a crackdown against journalism across the region, there will be less and less people shining light in these dark corners.”
Sebastien Lai said, adding “Thank you very much for this award but please keep dad, the Apple Daily newsroom in Hong Kong, and the people of Hong Kong in your thoughts as these events unfold.”
#GoldenPen #Media #Award #PoliticalOppression #NationalSecurityLaw
Source: Citizen News; #Dec2
https://bit.ly/3EkUSyy
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黎智英、《蘋果日報》獲頒新聞自由金筆獎
世界新聞出版協會（World Association of News Publishers）將年度新聞自由金筆獎頒發予正身陷囹圄的壹傳媒集團創辦人黎智英，以及香港蘋果日報編輯部人員，表彰他們為了捍衛新聞自由犧牲的精神。創立於1961年的自由金筆獎，每年會頒發給對捍衛和促進新聞自由有傑出貢獻者。黎智英兒子黎崇恩代表領獎，他致辭表示，由於蘋果日報停刊，加上香港新聞自由持續遭打壓，「在黑暗中發光的人將越來越少」，他感謝主辦單位頒發獎項，「也請別忘記我的父親、香港《蘋果日報》編輯部、以及香港人民」。
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#PoliticalOppression #PressFreedom
2021 marks a sad milestone for Journalists in HK : Committee to Protect Journalists
In the Committee to Protect Journalists (#CPJ) annual report 2021, it revealed that the number of journalists jailed around the world had set another record in 2021, with #China remains the world’s worst jailer of journalists for the third year in a row, with 50 behind bars.
As for Hong Kong, it said that 2021 "marked a sad milestone".
"For the first time journalists in the former British colony appear on CPJ’s annual survey of journalists unjustly imprisoned for their work. Eight. Zero to eight in one year."
READ FULL ARTICLE:
https://cpj.org/2021/12/hong-kongs-sad-media-milestone/
RELATED ARTICLE:
https://cpj.org/2021/12/attacks-on-the-press-in-2021/
The number of reporters jailed for their work hit a new global record of 293 in CPJ’s 2021 prison census, up from a revised total of 280 in 2020. Also so far in 2021, at least 24 journalists were killed as a result of their coverage.
#NationalSecurityLaw #FreedomOfSpeech #PressFreedom #JimmyLai #AppleDaily
Source : Committee to Protect Journalists; #Dec9
2021 marks a sad milestone for Journalists in HK : Committee to Protect Journalists
In the Committee to Protect Journalists (#CPJ) annual report 2021, it revealed that the number of journalists jailed around the world had set another record in 2021, with #China remains the world’s worst jailer of journalists for the third year in a row, with 50 behind bars.
As for Hong Kong, it said that 2021 "marked a sad milestone".
"For the first time journalists in the former British colony appear on CPJ’s annual survey of journalists unjustly imprisoned for their work. Eight. Zero to eight in one year."
READ FULL ARTICLE:
https://cpj.org/2021/12/hong-kongs-sad-media-milestone/
RELATED ARTICLE:
https://cpj.org/2021/12/attacks-on-the-press-in-2021/
The number of reporters jailed for their work hit a new global record of 293 in CPJ’s 2021 prison census, up from a revised total of 280 in 2020. Also so far in 2021, at least 24 journalists were killed as a result of their coverage.
#NationalSecurityLaw #FreedomOfSpeech #PressFreedom #JimmyLai #AppleDaily
Source : Committee to Protect Journalists; #Dec9
Committee to Protect Journalists
‘Taken into a cage’: Hong Kong’s sad media milestone - Committee to Protect Journalists
The year 2021 marks a sad milestone in Hong Kong. For the first time journalists in the former British colony appear on CPJ’s annual survey of journalists unjustly imprisoned for their work. Eight. Zero to eight in one year. I first visited Hong Kong nearly…