How China Is Tightening Its Grip on Hong Kong’s Media Scene
- Jimmy Lai’s pro-democracy newspaper is struggling to survive
- China has been strengthening its hold over city since protests
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Since China imposed a national security law on Hong Kong a year ago, it has snuffed out protests, arrested key democracy activists and overhauled the election system. Now its vibrant media scene is under threat.
While Hong Kong’s Basic Law guarantees residents freedom of speech and the press, authorities have moved on a number of fronts to erode those “fundamental rights” in recent years. Hong Kong ranked 80th in Reporters Without Borders’s latest press freedom index, down from No. 54 a decade ago.