We again call on Hong Kong authorities, as we did in our two open letters, to urgently answer our questions regarding the issuing of visas for journalists.
The Alliance for Journalists’ Freedom (AJF) promotes press freedom and the right of journalists to report the news in freedom and safety. It also campaigns in the Asia–Pacific region, wherever journalists are censored, threatened, imprisoned or killed. …
On August 14, the Foreign Correspondents’ Club, Hong Kong, received the following response to our letter to the Director of Immigration, Au Ka-wang, urging clarification over the issuance of journalist visas in Hong Kong.
On August 10, the Foreign Correspondents’ Club, published a statement condemning the arrest of Apple Daily founder and chairman Jimmy Lai and eight others.
The Foreign Correspondents’ Club, Hong Kong strongly condemns the arrest of Apple Daily founder and chairman Jimmy Lai and eight others, as well as a police raid of the newspaper’s office that Apple Daily reports was carried out by almost 200 officers.
In response to the statement by the Foreign Correspondents’ Club, Hong Kong on 6 August, the spokesperson of the Commissioner’s Office said that the US has been ramping up political suppression of Chinese media out of the Cold War mentality and ideolog …
The Human Rights Press Awards are run by the FCC, Amnesty International Hong Kong, and the Hong Kong Journalists Association. The 24th annual awards were announced on May 6, 2020. See the winners here.
