Asia The closure of the newspaper 'Stand News' deals another blow to press freedom in Hong Kong
An independent Hong Kong website that distributes news content announced on Sunday that it was ending its activities "to ensure everyone's safety," three days after police raided another independent outlet on charges of sedition.
CitizenNews, a user-funded information page, which was founded in 2017 by a group of journalists, is one of the most popular sources of information in Hong Kong, with more than 800,000 subscribers on social networks.
In 2021, he had hired journalists from other outlets, after authorities increased their control over the press.
Hong Kong Radio Television came under the control of pro-Beijing leaders and the pro-democracy Apple Daily, accused of posing a threat to national security, was forced to shut down.
On Sunday afternoon, CitizenNews announced "with great heartache" that it will end its activities on Tuesday and that
its website will be closed "later."
"Unfortunately, we cannot continue trying to transform our convictions into reality without feeling fear, due to the
radical change in society in the last two years
and the deterioration of the media environment," the outlet said in a statement.
Four of the CitizenNews co-founders are former presidents of the Hong Kong Journalists Association.
China increased its control over Hong Kong in the wake of the massive and often violent pro-democracy demonstrations that shook the city in 2019. One way to do this was to clamp down on the local press.
On Wednesday, the police carried out a raid on the newsroom of StandNews, a medium similar to CitizenNews, which announced its closure hours later.
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