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The Guardian - UK
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Helen Davidson in Taipei

Free media in Hong Kong almost completely dismantled – report

Since the 2019 pro-democracy protests, a crackdown has seen the closure of Apple Daily. Sources and citizens now fear retribution or legal consequences for speaking to journalists.
Since the 2019 pro-democracy protests, a crackdown has seen the closure of Apple Daily. Sources and citizens now fear retribution or legal consequences for speaking to journalists. Photograph: Vincent Yu/AP

Free media in Hong Kong has been almost completely dismantled by the government crackdown, clearing the market for an expanded pro-Beijing and state-owned media sector, a new report has said.

The report, by UK-based advocacy group Hong Kong Watch, came shortly after Hong Kong’s Foreign Correspondent’s Club announced it was suspending its Human Rights Press Awards because it did not want to unintentionally violate the city’s wide-ranging national security law imposed in 2020 by Beijing.

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