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al jazeera. hey. hello, i'm richard. yes, burton, you're watching a special edition of the listening post. this week we are focusing on hong kong, the city, and it's transformation. july 1st marked 24 years since the united kingdom handed its colony back to china. with that hand over came a set of promises. bay jang would stay out of hong kong. internal affairs keep its hands of its freedoms, including it's free press. but for many hong kong, the question was not if, but when china's communist party leaders would break that promise. and the answer appears to be. now, over the past 2 years, bay ging has intensified the stamping out of political descent in hong kong through new laws drawn up in the name of security, the jailing of critics and the reigning in of the news media. in the 2nd half of this program, we speak to 3 hong congress whose work and lives have been severely affected by the cities, loss of autonomy. but 1st, johanna who's on how hong kong got here from a city of liberties to one that's under a songs. ah, don't, don't always enjoyed the most open, liberal press in the region. oh, well, what we're seeing over the last year or 2 has been more like a death by a 1000 cuts. again. why ye guy, jerry target? hi paul. oh yeah. wake at joyce. hi, guy. away of joel nail. even the most optimistic jo. this found it difficult to have reason for optimism now, journalists may have to pay a price for the effort to seek the truth. home con, a place once known for its openness and civil liberties. now a place of political persecution and a correct on free speech. a city that in the last 2 years alone has seen more than 10000 protesters and rested, and dozens of dissidence killed. the result of the transformation that's been 24 years in the making since july, the 1st 1997. ah, today, the united kingdom, which had ruled him come for more than 150 years, returned its colony to china. handing hong kong back to china was weird. construct. you had this kind of free open capitalist city this enclave. and so you're handing it back to a country that's controlled by a authoritarian communist party. and the way that the 2 sides, the british in the chinese side were able to make it work as they came up with this amazing formula, said we'll have one country. but it will be 2 systems that by the way, why co op o thinking something up, in some case a hung gotten away, i got a policy alongside, got up hate at one choice ain't going as it's a game on it. and somebody and john wildly been far here. i built him home gong, tom dollar them case that i got a gang hole. yes, it's a merch my, it's a happened. so you, why your legal, that guy we are the men from china did not become like hong kong. if anything in the 24 year since the hand over. it's hong kong that's become more like mainland china. under british rule, the city didn't have a democracy, but it did have robust civil liberties, a well functioning justice system. and one of the free is media environments in the region. the one country to systems agreement was supposed to safeguard this, at least until 2047. and in the initial years after the hand over beijing held up its end of the bargain. that was at least partly because china was unwilling to kill the goose that laid the golden eggs. as the british colony on comb had grown into a global financial hub and its thriving ports ere links and access to foreign investment enabled china to generate about 20 percent of its g d p to the city. it made economic sense for beijing to be relatively hands off. however, as china grew into an economic superpower in the early 2 thousands, beijing started to rethink. it's hong kong strategy. beginning perhaps from 20 all 3. when there's mock change of tactic. i of h was to, was a hong kong mall control more innovations and more presence in the way we've gotten the media is not immune to those change of strategy. so beginning from that we've seen that media and double direct in direct oh pressure or the hifi went through that pilot yancey. we hate to hung on stop phones. i am might a little was i will enjoy all holmes and cbl and car weight bonds homes, either they joe leo, topical goldman. hi, lee, what you go homemaking and that's oh, my god, the high ed said the way my, my, like in the ohio, the me, me good being bama. china's tougher approach to hong kong was solidified in 2012. when siege in ping was appointed, general secretary of the communist party in 2014 c, radically changed the election process for the cities. my senior, political representative, the chief executive jungle, you will get out to what are 5 all great. you're going to one guy there. sure. sure, sure. he shunned on the course, you'd unable. sure. sure. don't good. and they don't that change? infuriated home commerce and for 79 days, mass protests called the umbrella movement, paralyzed to city. beijing responded by retching up. it's correct down on descent. more than a 1000 people were arrested for their ruined demonstrations and at least 127 were convicted. china also intensified its assault on hong kong media since 2014 at least 5 major mainstream media outlets got new pro beijing owners, including hong kong, dominant broadcaster t v b. and it's leading english newspaper, the south china, more post for those outlets, the minutes to hold out against a pressure, beijing wielded it considerable commercial muscle boycotting advertisements and pro democracy tabloids like apple daily. regardless, hold and chow, the vice chairman of the largest pro beijing party in hong kong government denies any crack down on the cities, media freedoms. iving is time for me to we've brought these. i'm cool and unwarranted accusations the media enjoy all the freedom of press. nothing less than before is all vibrant and very diverse people with smear ongoing by saying that while all the past few years is seems that there are some sort of crack down on the sand and stuff like that. of course they smearing. i think those us confluence of events here that made this crack down kind of inevitable here in hong kong. she didn't think came into power with a very hard line attitude. and then you have people here start pushing for more democracy that really gum, shook them up in beijing and they realized that hong kong suddenly was a problem. and then along come the 2019 protests and that's where i think china lost its patience. those 2019 protests were the biggest in hong kong history. more than 2000000 people about a quarter of the population took to the streets, risking arrest for 10 consecutive months. whom police tried hard to quell the protests at times with brutal force. beijing seized on the year long unrest to introduce legislation as strict new national security law. designed to curb dissent in hong kong once and for all implemented in june 2020 the law outlaws, secession, subversion, and collusion with foreign forces. vaguely defined offences that carried maximum sentences of life imprisonment. a new law has proven effective at silence and critics. so for $54.00 people have been charged including jimmy ly, the owner of the apple daily newspaper. the paper has been repeatedly targeted by the authorities. the final straw came on june 17th, when its officers were rated. the editor in chief was arrested and the company's assets are frozen. within a week of that rate, apple daily published its last and final edition. all right, i'm and i think they told me moby got your boy called me a lot for money and got the thing. how can i call you when we want a thing? and then come via for me that you believe thomas? i'm going to have more fetal game will be made. we both made both eager that got all the coco coco, c l bought the house that number they feel casey channel like why? i think as long as you are bader law, you don't coco against national security. i see nothing that they need to feel very . let me take an example. apple daily is not only a pap roy, but is also a prop again the done. again, the central government, so if you are running a media with an agenda to sort of dangling our country's national security, there's something wrong, isn't it? the social altogether change or the top odl on your walk. we'll see how old or her to be in your conference. you can leave his lease on her phone. i want to go home, see him, how legal haunts you on your bill. you see, don't see all they can hold all on paper when you're saying i'm such all your diet . i got up and got i'm gone. yeah, yeah, hold on the word tom. some to go with john. charm with bow truly speaks from experience as a freelance producer for hong kong public broadcast, her radio television, hong kong or r t h k. she's become a target for her reporting on foot. last year, she was arrested for her investigation into white police. didn't intervene in a violent mob attack on pro democracy protest her is in 20196. she looked through publicly available vehicle registration databases to track down the attackers. a practice that the prosecution seized on alleging that by failing to declare that her search was for journalistic purposes. choi, knowingly made a false statement, she was find nearly 800 u. s. dollars and cov oh, gotcha. i outing up eager obligation lies on much sions. hot and supplemented on gay yellow dance at ease. ike opens up a bit more and i my shot on c high. ho, joan ball was always a high gay, and they towel alcohol a hard edge on both alkaline gum and the what's your thought to her? hi, deluge him were gay call was a man's yelp. it's no longer just beijing that's coming for hong kong media. the cities chief executive carry lamp and will many of called her pro china rubber stamp. governments are cracking down to take bow choice employer, artie hage. k, the public broadcaster that used to have a reputation for its critical journalism. following its coverage of the 2019 protests including police violence, the hong kong government conducted a far reaching review of r t h. case management, and editorial direction. it has since replaced its director with a pro beijing bureaucrats and ext various of its programs. while they say the gall that i love sir bacon. yeah. with a comes on tight things will up sure. high things. holmes. i see her home. you know, the thing i'm, we got a high, high full moving full height height on the truck, on the heck are they supposed to be on balls? i can go, i'm going to be on the scenes, the royal back in 2019 audi a k have pulled you some program reporting for suits being very much bias. the government, if they see something wrong done by all th k, they are simply crossing the right line, going against a charge of they must, that being is their responsibility to regulate and make sure that our t h k will be back on the right track. ah, going by the newest political show of program hosted by the chief executive herself . so there is little doubt as to which direction r t h k is headed in but even with so much of home comes media and a stranglehold and the political opposition silenced beijing was done in march this year, the communist party rewrote the rules of hong kong electoral system, ensuring only patriots can now run for government. i could well prove the final nail in the coffin of the one country to systems agreement. trial what i'm and i'm going to take one last thing not to see how you got hung on gums or hey leo on the coping cycle. go on. so you gotta see how you tickle by her. so she'll come back honda. how are you? hi, uncle se whole megan call. awesome, and see our day phone height would be half full on some shit. okay, would i do see some ongoing job? 60 white over the phone have a like, so long to show your report documents the way china is cracked down on hong kong, effects journalism there. but the impact these changes have on freedom of expression. they go way beyond news organizations will absolutely take, for example, hong kong publishing industry. and the chinese government owns nearly as 30 publishing houses in the city. and it also controls the majority of the booksellers . there. they only print and sell books that so the official line, they've also made changes to school books, which now teach that at hong kong legislature and this year ery, ultimately answer to beijing. then there's of course, the new national security law, which could be used to target anyone that expresses undesirable views. for example, filmmakers in june this year, the hong kong government announced that it was going to block the distribution of any movie that is deemed to undermine national security. and they're also going to vet art exhibitions and galleries and to really cement their control over hong kong narrative. china is reportedly setting up what they call propaganda departments in the city tasked with controlling media organizations, but also public opinion. so we'll keep an eye on that. these attempts to control what people read, right, say what they teach. how are citizens, people who have opinions, dealing with that? are they going silent? finance. 3 on congress. that exact question, and none of them journalist in the traditional sense, but all people who fallen victim to these new restrictions on freedom of speech. the 1st is leach young. he is the founder of the june 4th museum, which is an exhibition in hong kong, which is dedicated entirely to telling the truth about the 1989 chinaman square massacre. a topic that is completely off limits in china has become a target for his work. just weeks after we interviewed him, he was arrested and sentenced to 20 months in prison for what the authorities call organizing unauthorized protest. then there is a one cake, one better known under his pen name, lindsey he is a long time political cartoonist who has been forced to navigate these new edits, royal red lines in his drawings, and then austria. i also spoke to nathan law, a former protest leader and democracy activist who was forced to flee hong kong to go into exile in london because the authorities back home were going out of their way to silence in little, i thought to the idea of this dreadful museum during the 20th anniversary of the tenants square moscow. because in china, everyone is solid being told a lie about $9089.00 is a complete black out of $89.00 history. so we want the truth to come out. the april 15th 1989. the previous general secretary of the congress body bunk died and he was a very popular reform. and so from lots of students to go and mourn his them. and then the morning begins to turn into the mind for anti corruption legally. for the proceed. and the susan began to come out on last to occupy the cabin's way. but the com, the audio regina condemn, demonstrates it as and to revolutionary i. and then they decided standing. and frank donald do today. they are no official rec calling of how many people are i 9089 where no one knows me and the congress money is of course prices suppressed all information about what happened. so the idea was since there, so many chinese people coming to hong kong, it would be very, very important to have a physical museum. the future full, the museum is pilot certain and gleick because the, the congress body using the nation's evil or they are using it in the very opposite way. the red line can always ship and they can always strangle. so before and the nation signal was inactive, we started the process of trying to plan for 9 museum. first. we have been july, everything that we have. and so that you know that i'll be in a way, if anything happened to this museum in a way what happened in 89 photo after thing after 32 years is the same regime. and they won't paula rate the sense and democracy and soul. this is very much rather than to day because the fight is due on me has been drawing for content for almost 40 years trying for such a long time. i could see what has been the life of hong kong before the hand over and afterward. so i think to some extent my, my content has recorded the history of transition. ah, this one is drawn nearly 40 years ago. but a transition about the hong kong moving back to china actually is just like from one case going back to the other case is a colony of china. and from the colony of u. k. but cartoon has always been very powerful that even the chinese government knows that to some extent they're quite afraid of. it was quite a little bit of lucky for me. i'm currently working from daddy and danny. i think this is the only 2 newspaper that allow me to, to cartoon. but there are a lot of father young cotton 1st off the job and they were quite afraid of the new national security law. they don't want to draw the national flag or the hong kong stack and they won't play with the national anthem. they used to make fun of seeing things so right right now they are afraid of doing as trying to cotton their red lines everywhere. and we won't know where the red line moved on one side from rock direction. and it's actually the casing right now in hong kong. me. so it's important for us to, to keep on trying to and to one day this is a lie. if the thing that they're, they're not going to do something i'm asked, but to me as a constant is of cause we have to use this opportunity to, to, to continue to express ourselves instead of laying down our pen and surrender in 2020 june. sorry to leave the hong kong. now secondly, worried about my personal safety. i had been left at one of the largest national enemy by the state media for very long time with when you go, i couldn't have imagined to doing interviewing the okay to be wanted under the national security law and to become an ex out activist. if you know the rigor in she's going to vancouver the funds. bobby we far funds, friends of you know we have gone to friends agenda. we 25 people. so a p hope to both country jungle. the fun way. be good if what you question keep and ruins your way by the jump build on that fall in hong kong. you just can't talk genuinely about your thoughts towards the baking government. what the state has a phone call of human rights activists. not only themselves being intimidated cultured out their loved ones, including the wife, tutoring, not being to maintain the valence or even also child. so for me, when i realized that i would be leaving hong kong, you should complex statement about severing my ties with my families. so i think i did a very difficult choice, but that choice was for the safety and well being of my family of all allow me to say that mister nathan, allow in front of you is most appro democracy activist is a fugitive from the law of hong kong that beijing government has always been trying to mammy troublemaker fallen in fact, her or anything that they could honish my reputation of course talking you individually. but they are also trying to describe the whole movement. who's even in london? i still do rather the cautious about my safety. we all understand how extensive china reach could be thought being living as chris live and trying to be protecting myself. but the future phone call is like the shop. my fisher is definitely great, but a long term future for me as an effort. i'm not entitled to lose hope. my duty to and how people choose and contains all of our fellows not to give up. after almost 25 years of shipping and then hacking away at hong kong freedoms and autonomy, beijing has left their hands off. approach behind the pandemic proved a useful pretext to clear demonstrators from the streets. the new national security law has made it much harder for them to return. but the fight for hong kong is not over as lee chalk yet from the june 4th museum, put it to the court before getting locked up to live in the truth. that's the path of democracy. i check. you've been watching a special edition of our program on hong kong. how it's changed, and where it's go. with the next time you're at the listing, the in columbia, transforming urban waste to building look. 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