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news, news, news. news. i hello, i'm richard. disparate. and you're watching a special edition of the listening folks this week. we are focusing on hong kong, the city, and it's transformation. july 1st marked 24 years since the united kingdom handed its commonly back to china. with that hand over came a set of promises. they ging would stay out of hong kong, internal affairs, keep its hands up its freedoms including its free press. but for many hong commerce, the question was not if, but when china's communist party leaders would break that promise. and the answer

appears to be. now, over the past 2 years, bay ging has intensified the stamping out of political descent in hong kong through new laws drawn up in the name of security, the jailing of critics and the reigning in of the news media. in the 2nd half of this program, we speak to 3 hong congress whose work and lives have been severely affected by the cities, loss of autonomy. but 1st, joanna, who's on how hong kong got here from a city of liberty's to one that's under a songs the in the hong kong always enjoyed the most open, liberal press in the region. well, what we're seeing over the last year or 2 has been more like a death by a 1000 cuts on young. why you got hydro targeting all organ, why? joy target would love to? we all know even the most optimistic jo. this find it difficult to have reason for

optimism about journalists may have to pay a price for the editors to seek the truth. come a place on known for its openness and civil liberties. now, a place of political persecution and a corrected free speech. a city that in the last few years alone has seen more than 10000 protesters arrested and dozens of dissident jail. the result of the transformation that's been 24 years in the making since july, the 1st 1997 cents . today, the united kingdom, which had ruled income for more than 150 years, returned its colony to china. ending hong kong,

back to china was a weird come struck. you had this kind of free open capitalist city is enclave. and so you're handing it back to a country that's controlled by authoritarian communist party and the way that the 2 sides, the british in the chinese side were able to make it work because they came up with this amazing formula and said, we'll have one country. but it will be 2 systems i got by the way, co op or something, but b k for hunger and we could have gone along. so i got one choice for him on something g, l, d, p and i have gone home. all of them case, i gotta use so much money as i have. so you, while you recall that guy will be made from china did not become like hong kong. if anything in the 24 year seems to hand over. it's hong kong that's become more like mainland china. under british rule, the city didn't have a democracy,

but they did have robust civil liberties. well functioning justice system. and one of the free is media environments in the region. the one country to systems agreement was supposed to safeguard this, at least until 2047. and in the initial years after the handover, beijing held up its end of the bargain. that was at least partly because china was unwilling to kill the goose that laid the golden eggs. as a british colony, i'm calling it grown into a global financial hub and its thriving port, air links and axes to for an investment enabled china to generate about 20 percent of its g d p to the city. it made economic sense for beijing to be relatively hands off. however, as china grew into an economic superpower in the early 2000 pages started to rethink its hong kong strategy. beginning perhaps from 20 all

3 when there's a marked change of tactic. of a change was towards hong kong, more control, more innovations and more presence in the way we've gotten to media, not in mil to those strange of strategy. so beginning from that, we've seen media on dumble direct and indirect pressure. the hygiene we got through the pilot. see we have to hung on stop fun and i will enjoy all home from people in car. we want tony or topic. oh, come on what you go home again. oh my god. certainly we my, my indoor, the me, me being fond. china's tougher approach to hong kong was solidified in 2012. when cj in ping was appointed general secretary of the communist party. in 2014 c, radically changed the election process for the cities. my senior political representative,

the chief executive jungle you'd you figured out what if i bought your gun term? got sure. sure. so we shut down the cushion, enable. sure, sure. don't go. and they don't change. infuriated hong kong and for $79.00 days math protests caught the umbrella movement paralyzed the city. beijing responded by ratcheting up its crick down under since more than a 1000 people were arrested for their ruined demonstrations and at least $127.00 were convicted. china also intensified its assault on hong kong media since 2014, at least 5 major mainstream media outlets called new probation owners, including hong kong, dominant broadcaster t v b. and it's leading english newspaper the south china morning post for those

outlets of minutes to hold out against a pressure facing wielded it considerable commercial muscle boycotting advertisements and pro democracy tabloids like apple daily. regardless, holden cho, the vice chairman of the largest probation party in hong kong government, denies any crack down on the cities, media, freedoms. iving is time for me to build these. i'm recruit and unwarranted accusation. the media enjoy. all freedom of brass. nothing less than before is all vibrant and very diverse people with me or ongoing by saying, wow, all the past few years is seems that there are some sort of crack down on the sand and stuff like that. of course they smearing. i think those confluence of events here that made this crack down kind of inevitable here in hong kong sheets

and thing came into power with a very hard line attitude. and then you have people here start pushing for more democracy that really got to ship them up in beijing. and they realized that hong kong suddenly was a problem. and then along comes the 2019 protests and that's where i think china lost its patients. those 2019 protests were the biggest in hong kong history. more than 2000000 people, about a quarter of the population took to the streets risking arrest for 10 consecutive months. the police tried hard to quell the protests. at times withdrew to force beige being seized on the year long unrest to introduce legislation as strict new national security law. designed to curb dissent in hong kong once and for all implemented in june 2020 the law outlaw, succession subversion,

and collusion with foreign forces. vaguely to find offences that carried maximum sentences of life imprisonment. the new law has proven effective at silence and critics. so for $54.00 people have been charged including jimmy ly, the owner of the apple daily newspaper. the paper has been repeatedly targeted by the authorities. the final straw came on june 17th, when its officers were rated. the editor in chief was arrested, and the company's assets are frozen. within a week of that rate, apple daily published its last and final edition. all right, so i think they told me might be all got you boy call to me a lot for money and god thing. how can i call you when we want a thing? how can i bring the mirror and then come via for me that you believe, thomas? i'm going to have more seattle game we'll be may well, you know,

if you made both eager go ahead and double click on the account number for her casey john, i'll like why i think as long as you are bader law, you don't coco against national security i see nothing that they need to feel very let me take an example. apple daily is not only a pap lloyd, but it's also a prop, again, the done against central government. so if you are running a media with an agenda to sort of and thing during our countries national security, there's something wrong, isn't it the social or take a change or the top odl on the we're see how our portal her to be at your conference. you come in here on her phone, you want to go home, see him, how you want you all you do you see, don't see all they can hold all on paper and you're saying i'm,

she was such all you got going on the word something which term chilly speak from experience as a freelance producer for hong kong public broadcaster radio television, hong kong or r t h k. she's become a target for her reporting combination with c d. on footage. last year she was arrested for her investigation into why police didn't intervene in a violent more attack on pro democracy protest. her new 2019. she was attacked by a group of white men. we live in 6. she looked through publicly available vehicle registration databases to track down the attacker, a practice that the prosecution seized on, alleging that by failing to declare that her cert was return the listing purposes. joy knowingly made a false statement. she was to find nearly $800.00 us dollars and co of august

autopay. she lives on top top. we don't get it in either high got into a problem or, and i might see her hotel, but we saw the hiking and they all called a heard on both of them and they just started her height to make a call with them. and it's no longer just a shame that coming for hong kong media, the city chief executive, kerry lan, and will many of called her pro china rubber stamp. governments are cracking down to take bow choice employer, rti hage. k, the public broadcast that used to have a reputation for its critical journalism. following it coverage of the 2019 protest including police violence, the hong kong government conducted a far reaching review of our t h. case management and editorial direction. it has since replaced its director

with a pro waging bureaucrat and ext various of its program or they say the call that i love to be seen. yeah. you know, when they come down he said things will option like things like homes. i see her home. i heard the thing, yeah, we got to ingle hi hope. full. moving full height. height on jack on the heck of a simple to be gumball. second. go for we go to your knees. he told us it seems to riot back in 2019 o d h k. have told you some program reporting for suits being very much bias. the government, if they see something wrong done by all j h k o they, they are simply crossing the red line going against the charge of they must have been is their responsibility to regulate and make sure that our t k will be back on the right track ah, going by, it's new as political show,

a program hosted by the chief executive herself. so there is little doubt as to which direction r t h cain headed in. but even with so much of hong kong media and a stranglehold and the political opposition silenced beijing was done in march this year, the communist party rewrote the rules of hong kong electoral system. ensuring only patriots can now run for government. i could well prove the final nail in the coffin of the one country to systems agreement. sure. what diamond, how are you going take long enough to see how you're hung on comes a hey leo on the compensation. go on. i'm sorry. oh, we got the order. yes, we have to go buy her. so she'll come to honda. how old is your highest goal? say whole megan call. awesome. and cl, are they phone height would be half full,

done, some should work. i do see some ongoing job. 60 bob white over the phone have to have a mix all on capital with joe, you're report documents the way china is cracked down on hong kong, effects journalism there. but the impact these changes have on freedom of expression. they go way beyond news organizations will absolutely take, for example, hong kong publishing industry. and the chinese government owns nearly as 30 publishing houses in the city. and it also controls the majority of the booksellers . there. they only print and sell books that so the official line, they've also made changes to school books, which now teach that at hong kong legislature and this year ery, ultimately answer to beijing. then there's of course, the new national security law, which could be used to target anyone that expresses undesirable views. for example,

filmmakers in june this year, the hong kong government announced that it was going to block the distribution of any movie that is deemed to undermine national security. they're also going to vet art exhibitions and galleries and to really cement their control over hong kong narrative. china is reportedly setting up what they call propaganda departments in the city tasked with controlling media organizations, but also public opinion. so we'll keep an eye on these attempts to control what people read, right? say what they teach, how are citizens, people who have opinions dealing that are they going silent? finance, 3 hong kong or is that exact question? and none of them journalist in a traditional sense, but all people who fallen victim to these new restrictions on freedom of speech. the 1st is leach young. he is the founder of the june 4th museum, which is an exhibition in hong kong, which is dedicated entirely to telling the truth about the 1989 chinaman square

massacre. a topic that is completely off limits in china. lee has become a target for his work. just weeks after we interviewed him, he was arrested and sentenced to 20 months in prison for what the authorities call organizing an authorized protest. then there is a one k, one better known under his pen name, lindsey he is a long time political cartoonist who has been forced to navigate these new edits, royal red lines in his drawings. and then also i also spoke to nathan law, a former protest leader and democracy activist who was forced to flee hong kong, going to excel in london because the authorities back home were going out of their way to silence in little i thought to the idea of this for museum during the 20th anniversary of the 10 square mosque. because in china, everyone is being called

a lie. about $9089.00 is a complete black out of $89.00 history. so we want the truth to come out. the april 15th 1989. the previous general secretary of the congress party, we all bon die and he was a very popular reform. and so from a lot of students to go and mourn to them. and then the morning begins to turn into the mind for anti corruption legally for democracy. and the susan began to come out on law to occupy the way a button on the audio regina condemn demonstrates the student as an to

revolutionary i. and then they decided standing on me and frank donald do today. they are no official rec calling of how many people are dying in 9089 square. no one knows me and the congress body is of course, trying to suppress all information about what happened. so the idea was since there, so many chinese people coming to hong kong, it would be very, very important to have a physical museum. the future for the museum is pipe on a certain. and because the,

the congress body use in the nation sees the law. they are using it in a very arbitrary way. the red line can always ship and they can always strangle sol before and the nation signal was enacted. we started the process of trying to plan for i'm use the 1st, we have the july. everything that we have and so that you know that i'll be in the way. if anything happened to this museum in a way, what happened in 89 photo after thing, after 42 years is the same regime. and they won't paula rate descent and democracy. and so this is very much relevant today because the fight is due on me has been drawing for content for almost 40 years for such a long time. i could see what has been the life of phone calls before the hand over

and afterward. so i think, to some extent, my, my cartoon has recorded the history of transition. ah, this one is drawn and nearly 40 years ago. but it transition about the hong kong, moving back to china actually is just like from one case going back to the other case is a colony of china and from colony, a few came back. cartoon has always been very powerful that been given the chinese government knows that to some extent they're quite afraid of. it was quite a little bit of lucky for me. i'm currently working from danny danny. i think this is the only 2 newspaper that allowed me to, to cartoon. but there are a lot of father young cotton news where it's not that job and they were quite

afraid of the new national security law. they don't want to draw the national flag or the hong kong slack, and they won't play with the national anthem. they used to make fun of seeing thing. so right right now they are afraid of doing as trying to cotton their right life everywhere. and that we won't know where the red line moved on one side from rock direction. and it's actually the case and right now in hong kong, me. so it's important for us to, to keep on turing cartoon. and to one day, this is a, b, i. e, think that they're, they're not going to do something i'm asked. but to me as a constant is of cause we have to use this opportunity to, to, to continue to express ourselves instead of laying down our pan and surrender

in 2020 june. i'm sorry to leave the hong kong. now it's definitely worried about my personal safety. i had been left at one of the largest national enemy by the state media for very long time with when you go, i couldn't have imagined to doing interviewing the okay to be wanted under the national security law and to become an ex out activist. if you know the difference, she's going to vancouver the funds all be we've our funds, if you're around, we have come from that we $25.00 people. so it be hope to vote conscious young on the phone. we be good if you question keep and runs your

way by you the junk bail bond that far. and in hong kong you just can't talk genuinely about your thoughts towards the beijing government to what the status phone call of human rights activists. not only themselves being intimidated portrait, charles their loved ones, including the wife tutor, and not being intimate ages surveillance or even also child. so for me, when i realized that i would be leaving hong kong issue, a complex statement about differing my time with my families. so i think i did a very difficult choice, but that choice was for the safety and well being of my family of all allow me to say that mr. nathan lau in front of you is most appro democracy activist is a fugitive from the law of hong kong that beijing government has always been trying

to miami troublemaker fall. and in fact, her or anything that they could hundreds my reputation of course targeting you individually. but they are also trying to describe the home in even in london, i still do read the cautious about my safety. we all understand how extensive reach could be thought being living. it's chris live and trying to be protecting myself beneficial phone calls like the shop. my fisher is definitely, but it won't have a future for me as an effort. i mean, i told you to lose hope my duty to and how people use campaigns. all of our fellows not to give up after almost 25 years of shipping and then hacking away at hong kong freedoms and

autonomy. beijing has left their hands off. approach behind the pandemic proved a useful pretext to clear demonstrators from the streets. the new national security law has made it much harder for them to return. but the fight for hong kong is not over as lead truck yet from the june 4th museum, put it to the court before getting locked up to live in the truth. that's the path of democracy i choose. you've been watching a special edition of our program on hong kong. how it's changed, and where it's go. with the next time here at the listing, the wizard bang energy and say to every part of our universe. or small to continue the change all

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