A UK-based NGO, Hong Kong Watch, has characterised media freedom in Hong Kong as “dire” and “completely dismantled” with multiple restrictions on journalists, in a report released on April 26.
The report, In the Firing Line: The Crackdown on Media Freedom in Hong Kong, includes interviews with 10 journalists. It also contains case studies on independent media organisations in Hong Kong that were forced to shut down after China introduced the National Security Law here in 2020 – until which time Hong Kong had enjoyed a higher degree of autonomy and freedom than mainland China.
