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There is no need for Hong Kong to legislate against “fake news” as long as the media industry exercises self-discipline, the city’s leader John Lee has said. Speaking at a weekly press conference on Tuesday, Lee said he believed Hong Kong’s media outlets had “improved compared to the past.” “I hope the industry can enhance the credibility of news information… I saw that some media workers and groups have made efforts in this area, refuting or correcting some disinformation,” Lee said in Cantonese. He added: “My attitude is that if we can handle this [fake news] issue through self-discipline an...
Hong Kong Free Press
A Hong Kong activist worked with Japanese politicians to lobby for immigration schemes for city residents and sanctions against “perpetuators of human rights violations” after Beijing imposed national security law on the city, the trial of media mogul Jimmy Lai has heard. Andy Li, an IT programmer turned activist, testified on Monday that he assisted Shiori Kanno, at the time a member of Japan’s House of Representatives, to form an alliance with eight other legislators. Their aim was to push for a “Magnitsky-style” act in Japan and “lifeboat policies” for Hongkongers after Beijing’s security l...
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Hong Kong’s customs chief has said authorities will step up measures to prevent items threatening national security from entering the city, following the recent enactment of new security legislation. Commissioner of Customs and Excise Louise Ho said in an interview with Cable TV on Saturday that the agency would revise its guidelines and step up training for frontline staff to better identify articles that could endanger national security. When asked whether Apple Daily newspapers or books on military affairs would be considered seditious publications, Ho said it depended on the person’s inten...
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Sanctions against individuals – or economic sanctions at the country level – were among the “immature ideas” Hong Kong activist Andy Li “floated” to an international parliamentary alliance days before the 2020 national security law came into force, a court has heard at the high-profile trial of media mogul Jimmy Lai. Li, the co-founder of activist group Fight for Freedom, Stand With Hong Kong (SWHK), which prosecutors allege was ultimately financed by Lai, continued to testify against the 76-year-old tycoon on Wednesday. The founder of the defunct Apple Daily newspaper stands accused of conspi...
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Hong Kong activist Andy Li did not take part in a pro-democracy crowdfunding campaign in May 2020 owing to risks linked to the enactment of the Beijing-enacted national security law, a court has heard at the landmark trial of media mogul Jimmy Lai. Monday marked day 52 of Lai’s 80-day trial under the 2020 security law for allegedly conspiring to collude with foreign forces. The founder of the now-defunct newspaper Apple Daily also faces charges of conspiring to publish seditious materials under the Crimes Ordinance. Li, one of the defendants in the case, continued to testify for the prosecutio...
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Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai’s aide arranged for Hong Kong activists to meet US senator Rick Scott when the politician visited the city during the 2019 protests and unrest, a key prosecution witness has told Lai’s national security trial. Andy Li, one of 12 Hongkongers caught by Chinese coastguard in August 2020, told the court on Wednesday that he spoke with Scott in September 2019 after Mark Simon, Lai’s US-based assistant, invited him and another “frontline” protester to a meeting in Mid-Levels. The witness, who is testifying against Lai, said he was invited because he had been part of a...
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Pro-Beijing lawmaker Junius Ho defended Hong Kong’s homegrown security law at the United Nations Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva on Tuesday, saying he was a victim of violence during the city’s 2019 protests and unrest. “I was targeted for exercising my free speech in condemning the violence and destruction caused by members of the anti-extradition bloc,” Ho said. “I am here today because the knife that had stabbed me barely missed my heart, and I will not wish that to happen ever again in a civil society. Which is why I am pleased to announce that the implementation of Article 23 of th...
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Hong Kong has hit out at British newspaper The Times after it published a “misleading” report suggesting that readers holding old newspapers could violate the proposed homegrown national security law. The Times published the article with the headline “Hongkongers to be jailed for keeping old newspapers” on Monday afternoon. The first sentence of the article read: “Hongkongers could be convicted and imprisoned for sedition for keeping old copies of newspapers, the territory’s pro-Beijing authorities have said.” The British media outlet added that “[s] ecurity laws being pushed through in Hong K...
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Jailed media mogul Jimmy Lai’s “radical” stance during the 2019 protests and unrest was common knowledge, a commentary writer for Lai’s pro-democracy paper Apple Daily has told a national security trial against his ex-boss. Yeung Ching-kee, who earlier pleaded guilty to taking part in a conspiracy to collude with foreign forces and is testifying against Lai for the prosecution, told a panel of three handpicked national security judges on Monday that Lai would appeal to the paper’s readers to take to the streets in 2019, when the city saw massive protests sparked by a now-axed extradition bill....
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A former Apple Daily editorial writer penned opinion pieces expressing pro-democracy views in line with those held by the newspaper’s founder, detained media mogul Jimmy Lai, a landmark national security trial has heard. A panel of three designated national security judges heard on Wednesday that Yeung Ching-kee, who managed a commentary section in the paper, wrote op-eds expressing pro-democracy views consistent with those of his boss. Lai, 76, in on trial after pleading guilty to two counts of conspiring to collude with foreign forces under the Beijing-imposed security law. He also pleaded n...
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