New York Times pulls journalist out of Hong Kong

New York Times pulls journalist out of Hong Kong due to concern over sweeping new security law. the New York Times on Tuesday and now plans to transfer about one third of its Hong Kong office. The decision was made out a concern that the new security laws will impact the New York Times to staff. The new security law redefines and bans session, terrorism, subversion, and foreign collusion. This law is unprecedented for Hong Kong in its severity. In particular for journalists is the term subversion, which is been used in similar laws on the mainland. In those cases, such a law was used to punish defense advocates, journalists, and human rights activists.

 

Relocate

As the New York Times begins pulling journalist out of Hong Kong and relocate to Seoul South Korea worry remains. The management of the times stipulated that is a contingency and that it is prudence spread out their Asian office. This decision comes on the heels of several of their journalists having had issues renewing their credentials in the city. The decision affects about one for all the employees in the Hong Kong New York Times office. Specifically, the portion of their office that deals with digital. In other words, the team of journalists cover breaking news when the London or New York offices are offline. At this time the report on events in Hong Kong and the print staff will remain. Indeed, editors of the times stated that they intend to cover Hong Kong’s transformation.

 

The sad part of New York Times pulls journalist out of Hong Kong what it says about the city. Hong Kong has been regarded as the bastion of journalism and Free Press in China. However, that has slowly begun to change in recent years. As early as 2018 prominent journalists were angered Beijing were used work visa by Hong Kong. As Chinese and US relations breakdown this trend has accelerated in recent years.

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