Read more about Jack Ma s SCMP joins Hong Kong media groups facing China control on Business Standard. Beijing has moved to stifle Hong Kong s democracy motion over the previous 12 months
Will Hong Kong’s Free Press Survive?
In the summer of 2019, Nabela Qoser, a broadcast reporter, became the face of Hong Kong’s adversarial press. The city was in deep political crisis. Anti-Beijing protests numbering in the hundreds of thousands of people had erupted over a government push to allow the extradition of suspected criminals to mainland China. Then, one evening during an unusually hot July, a mob of men dressed in white, bearing metal rods and bamboo poles, attacked a crowd in a train station that included people returning home from the protests. The police, claiming to be busy elsewhere, did not immediately arrest the assailants. At a news conference the next morning, the city watched as Qoser fired rapid questions at Carrie Lam, Hong Kong’s pro-Beijing leader.
Hong Kong protests: police officer broke data privacy law by displaying reporter’s ID card during protest live stream, watchdog finds
Privacy Commissioner criticises officer for revealing personal data of Ronson Chan during streaming coverage of demonstration in Tai Po last year
Watchdog calls on force to create standards for handling residents’ information in such situations and better train officers to respect privacy law
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