Carrie Lam | Hong Kong Leader Refuses How Media Can Avoid Arresting: Following the raid and prosecution of journalists at a pro-democracy newspaper. Also Hong Kong’s leader, Carrie Lam, has refused to clarify. That how journalists can avoid violating the vaguely defined national security law.
Carrie Lam | Hong Kong Leader Refuses How Media Can Avoid Arresting
Accused Of Conspiracy Against An Alien
Carrie Lam, the city’s chief executive, defended the arrest of senior Apple Daily executives under the national security law (NSL). Also, two of whom have charged with conspiracy to commit collusion with a foreign country. Additionally, the company will report a raid on the newsroom and the freezing of its assets during a regular press conference on Tuesday.
Apple Daily said it would stop publishing online this week if its assets are not frozen. It closed its English edition on Tuesday.
Lam refused an attack on freedom of the press and said that foreign criticism of the police operation, including by rights groups and world governments. It was simply an attempt to reorganise acts that endangered domestic safety.
May not attempt to minimise the impact of breach the law on national security or to bolster these acts of national security,” she urged. “Do not try to accuse the authorities in Hong Kong city. To using the law on national security to suppress media or hamper freedom of expression.”
The Vaguely Defined Law
Authorities reported raids and arrests of more than 30 articles calling for foreign sanctions against the Hong Kong and Chinese governments. Police refused to specify or say whether they were news or opinions on the articles in question.
Over and over again, the authorities have refused to inform the media how their work could violate the vaguely defined law. It’s including through publication by third parties of quotes, comments or analyses.
When asked on Tuesday, Lam said that “standard journalistic work would not put national security at risk. She said the law’ “very well define” and “related to all the key legal concepts.” Still, again, she did not explain how it specifically applied to journalism.
“I think media friends can grasp what kind of activities threaten national security,” she said. “It is fine to criticise the SAR administration in Hong Kong. But if there is an attempt to incite or subvert the government, it’s something else.”
When asked about demands by Apple Daily’s owners, Next Digital Media, to unfroze their assets and accounts to pay personnel, Lam told the Security Secretary that the decision was up to them.
Confiscate Journalistic Material
An activist and journalist magnate Jimmy Lai’s Vocal Pro-Democracy daily, Apple Daily, was the main target of the authorities’ efforts to restrict the press in Hong Kong. Since December, Lai has been in prison and awaits trial for three NSL counts. Hong Kongers have bought large numbers of copies of the daily to demonstrate support for the struggling title.
The raid on the newsroom on Thursday was the second in less than a year. And came with an outstanding warrant to confiscate journalistic material. According to Lai’s senior advisor Mark Simon. It froze approximately HK $18 million in assets and closed accounts of over HK $500 million. Before any prosecution began, the movie made it impossible for the corporation to pay future operational expenditures or salaries.
The Next Digital Board said employees would probably close the paper this week if the money, not release, did not release the funds. The programme broadcast on Monday its last live news show. So thanking their viewers and urged remaining Hong Kong media to stand up and protect the truth, RTHK said. It stopped its English-language service on Tuesday.
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