Hong Kong: A group of Loyal Parliamentarians to the Chinese Communist Party was appointed in the legislature of Hong Kong on Monday after the election without opposition candidates, as other pro-democracy news outlets announced it could no longer operate in the midst of the crackdown of freedom in the region.
The former British colony returned to China in 1997 was known as a paradise for differences of opinion and freedom of press and expression not visible on land.
But the central government in Beijing has clamped last year, leading to the closure of independent news outlets, removal of monuments to feed, and the election attended by poorly sweeping pro-Beijing politicians.
The founders of Citizen News News said the news site would stop publishing on Tuesday.
While they did not accept orders to close, they said Monday that media freedom deteriorated in the financial hub put them in an impossible position.
“ We all like this place, deeply.
Unfortunately, what’s in front of us doesn’t just pour the rain or blow the wind, but hurricanes and tsunamis, ” said citizens to say in a statement on Sunday, when it announced the closure.
The outlet was the third to close in recent months, after closing the last Pro-Democracy newspaper, Apple Daily, and online site news.
Citizen News was founded in 2017 by a group of veteran journalists.
Small sites that focus on political and analysis news, as well as investigations _ and in recent months have been shelter for many journalists who lose jobs when other outlets close or face other pressures.
“ Suddenly Apple’s closure every day in the past summer, the journalism department which was initially considered internship with them, the news of the residents made arrangements to bring them in, so students would not lose this internship opportunity, “Vivian said W.W.
TAM, senior lecturer at the Hong Kong University of China Journalism School, at the public Facebook post.
Tam refused to be interviewed.
But new national security laws that sweep, enforced in Hong Kong by the legislature of Central China, has made independent reporting more dangerous.
Journalists and Political Activists have been arrested under the law, and have forced groups and civil workers to disband.
Many more activists have escaped.
Meanwhile, new laws have changed how Hong Kongers chose their representatives, including the requirement that anyone who was looking for the office must be `patriots”, effectively carrying the body under the control of Beijing.
“What we understand about press freedom has changed a lot, ‘”Chris Yeung said, the founder and head of the author at News Citizen.
Yeung said at a press conference on Monday that the trigger for their decision to be closed was what had happened to stand news last week, the authority invaded the news and arrested seven people, including the editor and.
Former council members, for allegedly conspiring to publish calm material.
Berte stands announced on the same day that it will stop operating.
Two former editors stand news arrested and then officially charged with incitement.
In the summer, the authorities forced the closure of Apple Daily.
, the newspaper owned by Media Taipan and Democracy Activist Jimmy Lai.
Lai when in I was in prison and was just charged with the incitement last week.
The publisher community in Asia, a Hong Kong-based group that accommodated the annual journalism award, said that Monday was worried about pressure on independent media in the city.
“ We call the Hong Kong authority to respect freedom of expression and press, which is very important for the success of our industry, “he said in a statement.
The United States and other Western governments condemned the boundaries of the media and civil liberties promised by Beijing to uphold 50 years after being submitted by the 1997 Hong Kong.
The Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam last week defended the attack at Stand News, told reporters that “ incite others …
cannot be conditioned by the guise of reporting news.
“The only independent news media left with the reach of the city’s free Hong Kong press, English news outlets, and initium, Chinese-language news outlets who moved their headquarters to Singapore in August, but still had staff in the city.
News Citizen equates himself into a small Dinghy in rough waters.
“ In the middle of a storm brewing, we found (ourselves) in a critical situation.
In the face of a crisis, we must ensure the security and welfare of all those who are on board, “ he said.