{"id":1089873,"date":"2021-04-20T11:24:15","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T10:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eldigitaldeasturias.com\/noticias\/?p=1089873"},"modified":"2021-04-20T11:24:15","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T10:24:15","slug":"security-law-poses-threat-to-hong-kong-journalism-says-watchdog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eldigitaldeasturias.com\/noticias\/security-law-poses-threat-to-hong-kong-journalism-says-watchdog\/","title":{"rendered":"Security law poses threat to Hong Kong journalism, says watchdog"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Hong Kong (dpa) – The national security law imposed on Hong Kong by Beijing in 2020, poses a \u201cgrave threat\u201d to journalism in the city, warned an international watchdog for press freedom on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

On its website, Reporters Without Borders cited the imprisonment of 73-year-old media mogul Jimmy Lai – the owner of pro-democratic newspaper Apple Daily owner and a recipient of its Press Freedom prize – as evidence of how the law has allowed Beijing to intervene directly in Hong Kong’s governance to punish what it regards as \u201ccrimes against the state.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00abJimmy Lai … has been arrested and charged under this law and is facing a possible life sentence,\u00bb said Reporters Without Borders in a statement.<\/p>\n

Last week, Lai was handed a 12-month prison sentence alongside several prominent ex-lawmakers for allegedly organizing and participating in an unauthorized protest in August 2019.<\/p>\n

The founding member of the Democratic Party, 82-year-old barrister, Martin Lee, received an 11-month jail sentence, suspended for 24 months.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, Hong Kong marked its first \u00abNational Security Education Day\u00bb at schools, with the aim of promoting the sweeping law.<\/p>\n

Police dressed in riot gear visited schools across the city to host a range of activities with primary students, who were photographed playing with toy guns and handling police weaponry.<\/p>\n

Souvenirs of toy riot police holding warning flags, typical of those seen during the protests, were on display.<\/p>\n

In its statement, the watchdog accused the government of leading an intimidation campaign against broadcaster Radio Television Hong Kong, with the aim of restricting its editorial autonomy.<\/p>\n

HK is ranked 80th on the world press freedom index, down from 18th place in 2002, while mainland China is ranked 177th on the list.<\/p>\n

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Hong Kong (dpa) – The national security law imposed on Hong Kong by Beijing in 2020, poses a \u201cgrave threat\u201d to journalism in the city, warned an international watchdog for press freedom on Tuesday. On its website, Reporters Without Borders cited the imprisonment of 73-year-old media mogul Jimmy Lai – the owner of pro-democratic newspaper […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1089874,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1089873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualidad"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t