Hong Kong: independent news site announces closure

Sunday at the end of the day, the Hong Kong news site CitizenNews announced “ with a heavy heart ” that it would cease its activities on Tuesday and that its website would be closed “ later ”, to “ ensure everyone’s safety ”. An announcement that comes three days after police raided another independent site , StandNews, accused of sedition. The latter announced its closure a few hours later.

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CitizenNews, a non-partisan, user-funded news site founded in 2017 by a group of senior journalists, is one of Hong Kong’s most popular online news outlets, with over 800,000 social media subscribers. . During the past year, he had hired several journalists from other media, as the authorities tightened their control over the press.

Unfortunately, we can no longer strive to turn our beliefs into reality without fear due to the radical change in society over the past two years and the deterioration of the media environment , ”the outlet said in a communicated. Hong Kong Radio Television came under the control of pro-government leaders while the pro-democracy Apple Daily, accused of posing a threat to national security, was forced to close.

China has tightened its control over Hong Kong since massive and often violent pro-democracy protests engulfed the city in 2019, notably by cracking down on the local press.

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