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Hong Kong’s press freedom record is in free fall

July 5, 2024July 4, 2024 by Siddhi Mahatole

900 journalists have lost their jobs while others are languishing in prison under the National Security Law

Categories China Watch Tags Apple Daily, China, Jimmy Lai, Journalists Muzzled, News Leave a comment

Smear campaigns and the ‘sham trial’ of Jimmy Lai

December 21, 2023December 19, 2023 by China Factor Staff

China loads the deck with handpicked judges in a test case for media freedom and judicial independence 

Categories Inside Hong Kong Tags Apple Daily, Communist Party of China, Hong Kong, Jimmy Lai Trial, National Security Law, News Leave a comment

China’s red curtain has descended on Hong Kong

October 20, 2021October 19, 2021 by China Factor Staff

Beijing turns the ‘past’ into the ‘future’ by using the national security law to repress the city

Categories Democracy Crackdown Tags Amnesty International, Apple Daily, China, Communist Party of China, Hong Kong Crisis, News, Pro-Democracy Movement, United Nations Leave a comment

Chairman Xi Jinping’s Party is rotten to the core

June 26, 2021June 24, 2021 by Juweihu

Human rights are trampled on while freedom of speech is muzzled as a Red mist decends on Hong Kong

Categories China-Hong Kong Tension Tags Apple Daily, Beijing Crackdown, Communist Party of China, Freedom of Speech, Hong Kong, News, South China Sea, Taiwan Leave a comment

How China used Hong Kong’s police to crush democracy in the city

June 18, 2021June 17, 2021 by China Factor Staff

Armed with the Beijing-imposed National Security Law, the once-respected force risks losing the ‘trust’ of the people

Categories China-Hong Kong Tension Tags Apple Daily, Beijing, China, Hong Kong Police Force, Media Muzzled, National Security Law, News, Pro-Democracy Movement Leave a comment

Hong Kong arrests peel away the ‘remaining veneer of democracy’

January 14, 2021January 6, 2021 by Juweihu

Massive police crackdown finally ends China’s charade of the ‘One Country, Two Systems’ model

Categories Human Rights Tags Apple Daily, Arrests, China, Hong Kong, National Security Law, News, Police Raids Leave a comment

Media mogul Lai released from prison and placed under house arrest

January 16, 2021December 24, 2020 by China Factor Staff

The Hong Kong owner of Apple Daily faces gagging before his court case under the new national security law is heard

Categories Hong Kong Tags Apple Daily, Hong Kong, Jimmy Lai, National Security Law, News Leave a comment

Why Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai gives Beijing nightmares

January 3, 2022August 10, 2020 by Juweihu

The founder of influential Apple Daily is arrested under the city’s draconian national security law

Categories Politics Tags Apple Daily, Arrested, China, Hong Kong, Jimmy Lai, News Leave a comment

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