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Ai Weiwei’s Covid-19 lockdown film traces China’s ruthless efficiency
by Joëlle Garrus China’s coronavirus response has been both hugely efficient and chillingly inhumane, says artist and activist Ai Weiwei after releasing a documentary about the world’s first virus lockdown in the Chinese city of Wuhan. Ai, a dissident who left China five years ago, directed and produced the film “Coronation” from Europe, where he now lives, […]
As journalists are made to leave, Hong Kong’s global status will suffer
The ongoing journalists’ visa war between the United States and China shows no sign of abating. Rather than easing, it seems headed towards its end game. It began back in February when the US State Department ordered five Chinese news outlets to register as foreign entities and forced them to reduce their staff by roughly […]
COMMENTARY & ANALYSIS
Power to the people to keep Hong Kong press freedom alive
Over the past weeks, I have started and stopped writing this piece more times than I can count. I have run through it in my head over and over, sat down in front of my computer and typed away furiously at my keyboard. But every time I had written either a few lines or a […]
Joint statement: Arrest, harassment and intimidation of journalists in Hong Kong must stop
We, the undersigned, are troubled by the decline in press freedom and democratic rights in Hong Kong and express our deep concern about the ramifications of the imposition of national security legislation by the Beijing authorities. Hong Kong has long been respected as a powerful global economic hub and lively political and democratic space, supported […]
FEATURES
In Pictures: Wheelchair no impediment to Hong Kong’s frontline protest photographer
By Kevin Cheng Tommy Wong is a Hong Kong protester-turned-journalist with a difference. He reports on the city from a wheelchair. Born with muscular dystrophy, his condition has not hampered his ability to cover events during the past year of political discontent. “I am no different from most people, both physically and mentally. The only […]
‘I will continue until I have no other choice’: The art of bookselling under Hong Kong’s national security law
In the weeks since Beijing passed the Hong Kong national security law, political titles have been pulled from public library shelves, a protest slogan has been banned and students have been prohibited from political activities in schools. With lawyers, academics, and journalists expressing concern over the law’s vague wording, the future of free speech and […]
Exclusive: Media law expert Doreen Weisenhaus on why Hong Kong may no longer be Asia’s oasis of free speech
Doreen Weisenhaus is working on a new edition of the Hong Kong Media Law textbook – a title that is likely on every local newsroom’s bookshelf. But Weisenhaus has told HKFP that she has had to make some serious edits following the new security law: “When I wrote my first and second edition of Hong […]
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