Taipei
In the former British colony, the media had better walk straight and not upset Beijing.
After the searches that sounded the death knell for the independent newspaper Stand News, less than a week ago, it is the turn of the Citizen News website to announce that it will stop publishing from Tuesday, January 4.
The total closure of the site should follow soon.
"We cannot rule out the possibility that one of our articles published in past years may have broken the law,"
Editor-in-chief Chris Yeung said Monday morning.
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Coup de grace for press freedom in Hong Kong
Citizen News is the third medium to close its doors in less than a year.
The decision reflects the context of fear and intimidation that has raged in Hong Kong since July 1, 2020, when Beijing instituted a new national security law (NSL) there.
The latter condemns the crimes of secession, subversion, terrorism and collusion: terms sufficiently vague so that the red line between what it is possible or not to criticize ...
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