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December 9, 2002 Comments on the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government’s Consultation Document on proposals to implement Article 23 of the Basic Law* Submitted to the Security Bureau by the Committee to Protect Journalists The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) submits this memorandum in response to the Consultation Document dated September 24, 2002 released…

NOT IN OLD HONG KONG Newsday (New York, NY) November 24, 2002 Copyright 2002 Newsday, Inc. By A. Lin Neumann. In many ways Hong Kong looks as good as ever. The soaring Bank of China building and its many gleaming neighbors in Central, the downtown business hub, still have the air of cocky optimism that…

Hong Kong, September 19, 2002—Pending national security legislation represents what could be the biggest threat to press freedom in Hong Kong since the territory’s 1997 transfer of sovereignty to China, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said at a press conference here today. The Hong Kong government is currently preparing national security legislation to be…

Hong Kong, September 19, 2002—Pending national security legislation represents what could be the biggest threat to press freedom in Hong Kong since the territory’s 1997 transfer of sovereignty to China, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said at a press conference here today. The Hong Kong government is currently preparing national security legislation to be…

PENDING MEMBERSHIP IN THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION and fledgling steps towards greater dialogue with Taiwan are just two recent signs that China is opening up to the world, a trend that some say will lead to greater freedoms within the country. The ruling Communist Party, however, has yet to extend this opening to the news…

Your Excellency: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is deeply disturbed by the April 12 statements of a senior Chinese official, warning Hong Kong media that they are not free to report independently on the contentious issue of Taiwan’s political status.

Relations between the press and the Hong Kong government have deteriorated sharply in the two years since Britain returned the former colony to China. While the Hong Kong press remains one of the freest and most aggressive in the region, the strains of the “one-country-two systems” formula devised by communist China to govern the capitalist…

Your Excellency: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is concerned about the implications of this week’s abrupt transfer of Cheung Man-yee from her post as director of Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK). Cheung has been a staunch defender of press freedom during her 13-year tenure as director of RTHK, a publicly funded broadcast agency with a long tradition of editorial autonomy.

After serving nearly 32 months in prison for his newspaper’s critical coverage of Turkey’s ongoing conflict with Kurdish insurgents, editor Ocak Isik Yurtçu was freed from Saray Prison on August 15, one day after Turkey’s parliament unanimously passed an amnesty law allowing for the release of several jailed editors.