The FCC’s core mission is to promote and facilitate journalism of the highest standard, and to defend press freedom across the region. Faced with unprecedented attacks on the media, never has our club’s role been more vital – nor our commitment been stronger. We will do all that we can to ensure reporters and correspondents can operate without interference or interruption; speak out and stand up for our fellow professionals; and strive to provide the best resources and information we can to the community.
The Human Rights Press Awards, now in their 20th year, are the biggest journalist event on the Club calendar.
The FCC runs them along with Amnesty International Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Journalists Association.
You can find more information at HumanRightsPressAwards.org.
Macau’s Electoral Affairs Commission for the Legislative Assembly Election (CAEAL) has ordered weekly newspaper ‘Plataforma’ to remove from its online edition an interview with a Legislative Assembly candidate.
The four journalists, one from HK01, one from South China Morning Post and two from Apple Daily, were trying to cover the clean-up work in Macau after the enclave was heavily hit by the Severe Typhoon Hato.
The OPCC is disturbed by the levelling, by the Cambodian Government, of a huge tax bill on the Cambodia Daily – a newspaper published since 1993.
The FCCC is concerned by reports that foreign journalists in Shenyang covering the death of Nobel Peace laureate, Liu Xiaobo, have been harassed and intimidated by plainclothes security officers.
Three years ago, the FCC stood with our Al Jazeera English colleagues convicted in Egypt in a shocking attack on press freedom everywhere. Today, we reiterate that call on behalf of Al Jazeera itself.
The ban contravenes the press freedom charter that Carrie Lam signed at an election campaign forum hosted by HKJA in which she pledged to grant online-only media equal rights and access to government press functions.
The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Hong Kong supports the following statement from the Hong Kong Journalists Association on the Government’s decision to bar online media from attending the press conference held by Chief Executive-elect Carrie Lam.
The Human Rights Press Awards are run by the FCC, Amnesty International Hong Kong, and the Hong Kong Journalists Association. The 23rd annual awards will be held on May 16, 2019, in a ceremony at the FCC. See last year’s winners.
