One year after the paper was forced to shut down and several senior editors arrested by national security police, former reporters at Hong Kong’s pro-democracy Apple Daily newspaper are still writing the stories the paper might have run, and posting them to social media. Journalist Alvin Chan, who uses the hashtags #AppleDaily and #keeponreporting on
Authorities in China have ordered dozens of pro-democracy activists and dissidents into house arrest or other forms of restriction ahead of the 33rd anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre on June 4. Dissident political commentator Zha Jianguo and veteran journalist Gao Yu are under house arrest at their Beijing homes, while rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang and his
A newspaper backed by the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has called on a prominent journalists’ association in Hong Kong to disband, as the city’s foreign correspondents’ club said it had axed a prestigious award for journalists reporting on human rights issues. Writing in the Wen Wei Po newspaper, pro-Beijing lawmaker Edward Leung called the
RFA: You came to Hong Kong 16 years earlier. Oksana: Yes, Olena can be found in 2005. And I followed in 2008. RFA: Why Hong Kong? Oksana: We love to take a trip. And at that time we were very young, and we would take a trip with our friends, households, and just occurred to
” They have actually put so much effort into bringing in the national security law and on improving the electoral system, that it will be tough to validate if Hong Kong is even less stable than it was before,” Choy told RFA.” So they want to guarantee Hong Kong is steady … as well as
Authorities in the southwestern Chinese province of Yunnan have rescued a three-year-old lady who was taken from a public toilet in Xinping county, amid growing public awareness of trafficking and kidnapping of women and ladies, frequently for marriage.An officer who responded to the phone at the Xinping county cops department verified to RFA that the
