It is clear that the trumped-up charge of police obstruction brought against Ronson Chan, the chairman of the Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA), is deliberately contrived to extinguish the last vestiges of press freedoms in Hong Kong (Report, 20 September).
The HKJA is one of the few remaining press freedom groups in the city following a two-year wholesale crackdown on dissent under the draconian national security law. Therefore it comes as no surprise that authorities have now resorted to fabricating charges in a desperate attempt to finally muzzle media freedom advocates.
