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Helen Davidson in Taipei

Hong Kong journalists harassed in ‘systemic and organised attack’

Selina Cheng
Selina Cheng, chair of the Hong Kong Journalists Association, shows examples of Facebook posts intended to intimidate journalists. Photograph: Kanis Leung/AP

Journalists from more than a dozen media outlets in Hong Kong have been harassed and targeted in what the city’s largest journalist association said was a “systemic and organised attack” over recent months.

The harassment included death threats, and threatening and defamatory complaint letters being sent to reporters’ families and their employers, as well as landlords and neighbours, the Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA) said.

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