{"id":40835,"date":"2014-07-10T14:37:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T14:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=40835 "},"modified":"2014-07-10T14:37:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T14:37:00","slug":"40835-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=40835","title":{"rendered":"Warning Over Media Freedom Amid Rising Tensions in Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Protesters display placards during a rally to support press freedom in Hong Kong, March 2, 2014.<\/div>
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Hong Kong’s formerly freewheeling press is seeing its “darkest days” yet, in what is likely a harbinger of further erosion of the former British colony’s traditional freedoms, journalists and political commentators said on Monday.<\/div>
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“The year under review has been the darkest for press freedom for several decades,” the Hong Kong Journalists’ Association (HKJA) said in a statement issued with its annual report on Sunday.<\/div>
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“As political tension between Hong Kong and Beijing increases, the HKJA expects further deterioration in press freedom in the years to come,” the statement on the group’s website said.<\/div>
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According to a recent HKJA poll, the territory’s journalists rated press freedom at 42 on a 100-point scale, as well as expressing concern about self-censorship and pressure from media owners and management.<\/div>
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“People used to talk about the frog heating up slowly in a pan of tepid water in the past, but it’s not like that now,” Hong Kong Journalists’ Association (HKJA) chairwoman Sham Yee-lan told RFA on Monday.<\/div>
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“Right now, the frog is getting boiled alive.”<\/div>
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She said Hong Kong’s media is currently in a state of “siege emergency.”<\/div>
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“[It] is under attack from all quarters, including some within its own ranks, and from some who blatantly trample press freedom underfoot,” Sham said.<\/div>
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<span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; background-color: #ffffff;">The HKJA report reviews a series of "grave attacks, both physical and otherwise in the past 12 months," including an attack on former Chinese-language Ming Pao chief editor Kevin Lau, the sacking of Commercial Radio talk-show host Li Wei-ling and the removal of other prominent journalists from senior editorial positions.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ChinaHumanRights","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}