Sunday, July 4, 2021

Hong Kong: Broken promises

 



We look at the erosion of free speech, the squeeze on civil liberties and stringent laws controlling political expression in Hong Kong.

Twenty-four years since Britain handed Hong Kong back to China, the city has undergone a transformation. In recent years, Beijing has intensified the silencing of political dissent and the squeezing of media freedom – through new laws drawn up in the name of security, the jailing of critics, and the reigning in of adversarial journalism.

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