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challenging the political establishment in latin america. as a pandemic thinks millions into overseas and fuel prices and they're trying to food . whereas the least max tech unicorn can see the cost on all to 0. the lauren richard disparate and you're watching a special edition of the listening post this week. we are focusing on hong kong, the city and it's transformation july 1st marked 24 years since the united kingdom handed. it's called me back to china with that hand over came a set of promises. beijing would stay out of hong kong. internal affairs keep its hands up. it's freedoms including its free press. but for many hong kong hours, 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 informed the, in the home can 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 organ, why? joy target would love to? we all know even the most optimistic to this find it difficult to have reason for

optimism. now, journalist 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 been more than 10000 protesters arrested, and dozens of disciplines. jill. the result of the transformation that's been 24 years in the making since july, the 1st 1997. today, the united kingdom, which had ruled income for more than 150 years, returned its colony to china. handing hong kong back to

china was weird. construct you had this kind of free open capitalist city this enclave. and so you're handing it back to a country that's controlled by a authoritarian communist party. and the way that the 2 sides, the british and the chinese side were able to make it work as 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 in some case a hunger and we could have gone along. so i got, hey, when you see him on somebody and john hall, you had hung gone hums all out them case you can use so much money. so you, while you recall that guy we met 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 it 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 hand over 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 it's thriving port air links and access 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 early 2000 pages started to rethink. it's hong kong strategy. the beginning,

perhaps from 20 or 3 when there's mark change of tactics. of a change was towards hong kong, more control, more innovations and more presence in the way we've gotten to media this a lot in meal to those strange of strategy. so beginning from that, we've seen the media and dumble direct and indirect pressure because we got that pilot. see, we have to hung on stop fun and i will enjoy all home from people in car. we want someone, they told a topic on why you go home again, and i tell my gums, certainly with my mike in the me, me being funny. 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 june, figured out what if i bought your gun term that? sure, sure. so we shut down the push to enable sure, sure, don't go and they don't change. infuriated hong kong and for $79.00 days, mass protest caught the umbrella movement paralyzed to city. beijing responded by ratcheting up its correct down on the since morning. a 1000 people were arrested for their ruined demonstrations and at least 127 were convicted. china also intensified its assault on hong kong media since 2014 at least 5 major mainstream media outlets got new pro basing owners, including hong kong, dominant broadcaster t v b. and it's leading english newspaper,

the south china morning post for those outlet of minutes to hold out against a pressure facing wielded a 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. i think it's time for me to build these and recruit an unwarranted accusation. the media enjoy all the 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. she

didn't think 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. they realize 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 with brutal force. the beijing seized on the year long unrest to introduce legislation. a strict new national security law designed to curb dissent in hong kong once and 4 implemented in june 2020 the law outlaw, succession subversion,

and collusion with foreign forces. eagerly to find offences that carried maximum sentences of life imprisonment. the new law has proven effective 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 thought straight them, and sometimes they told me moby all got you boy cocoa, me a lot for money. got thing. how can you call you when we want a hey thing, how can i come via for me that you thomas? i'm going to have more seattle game we'll be may we both have employee,

both eager guy and mom dog coco, coco. she bought the house. that number, they feel her casey town all like 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 roy, but it's also a prop, again, the done against the central government. so if you are running a media with an agenda to sort of in danger in our country's national security, there's something wrong, isn't it? the social alterations or the top although on $11.00 the we're see how our old her to be on bush. all right, you're going to be his liaison and her phone. you want to go home, see him, how you legal haunts id or something you don't see or they can hold all the paper.

you're saying i'm she was such all you know, your thought on got on hold on the word to get on the chewy. 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 online footage from last year she was arrested for her investigation into white police. didn't intervene in a violent move 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 search was her during the listing purposes. joy knowingly made a false statement. she was to find nearly $800.00 and color of august.

i do not eager, autopay she lives on top some up when i don't get yelled in either high, got into a problem more than my child and see her. who told me to have a new tire on her come to start her height and weight. i'll go someone else. it's no longer just beige ng that's coming for hong kong media, the city chief executive, kerry lamb, and will many of called her pro china rubber stamp. governments are cracking down to take bow choice employer, rti hage. k. the public broadcaster that used to have a reputation for its critical journalism. following the coverage of the 2900 protest, including police violence, the hong kong government conducted a far reaching review of r t h. case management, and editorial direction. it has since replaced its director with

a probation bureaucrat and ext various of its program. are they say the goal that helps her baby she comes on. he said type things up. sure. high things while you homes, i see her home, you know the thing we got to ingle. hi hope. full moving full height. height on the, on the height of a simple to be combo. so i can go for, we go to the veto scenes, the royal back in 2019 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 right line or going against the charge of they must have been is their responsibility to regulate and make sure that our t h 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 k is headed in. but even with so much of home comes media and a strangle hold in a political position 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 i'm and i'm going take on passing love to see how you got hung on the hey leo and the coffins when things come so you know we gotta order. yes, we have to go buy her. so she'll come by honda. how are they? so you hire gold, say whole mega call. awesome. and they phone height would be half full on some

should work. i don't see some on going on. why do you, over the phone, have a high or they mixed all along with joe, your 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 the 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, every 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, in 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 that. 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 has that exact question and none of them turn list in the 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 squire

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 cake, one better known under his pen name, lindsey he is a long time political cartoonist who has been forced to navigate these new editorial 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 all i thought to the idea of this dream for museum during the 20th anniversary of the tenants square moscow. because in china everyone is being told

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 body bon die. and he was a very popular reform. and so i problem a lot of students to go and more had them. and then the morning, beginning to turn into the mon for anti corruption legally for democracy, and soon began to come out on march to occupy the hammons way. on the audio regina condemn demonstrates the student as and to revolutionary

i. and then they decided standing on me and frank donald to today they are no official rec calling of how many people are dying in 9089 square. and 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. but the future for the museum is pipe, uncertain, and gleick because the,

the congress party using the nation's evil, or 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 an act that we started the process of trying to plan for. i'm use the 1st, we have been 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 89400, after thing, after 42 years is the same regime and they won't tolerate descent and democracy. and so this is very much rather than to day because the fight is due on me has been drawing for content for almost 40 years trying for such a long time. i could see what has been the life of hong kong before the hanover and

afterwards. so i think to some extent my, my content has recorded the history of transition. ah, this one is drawn and nearly 40 years ago. but a 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 the colony of u. k. but cartoon has always been very powerful that been even 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 daddy and danny. i think this is the only 2 newspaper that allowed me to throw cartoon, but there are a lot of father young cotton, 1st 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 stack and they won't play with the national anthem the years to make fun of seeing things so right right now they are afraid of doing as trying to cotton, their red lines everywhere. and then we won't know where the red line moved on one side from rock direction. and it's actually the casing right now in hong kong. me. so it's important for us to, to keep on trying to and to one day this is a lie. if the thing that they're not going to 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 pen and surrender

in 20, 20 june. to leave the hong kong. now secondly, 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 here doing interviewing the okay to be wanted under the national security law and to become an exile activist. if you know the rigor in submission going to vancouver the funds bobby, we've our funds. if you go around we've gone to friends agenda. we 25 people. so a p hope to both country young on the far way. be good if you question keep and ruins your way by you the junk bail bond that far. you end up

in hong kong. you just can't talk genuinely about your thoughts choice, the beijing government, what the status phone call of human rights activist. not only themselves being intimidated orchard their loved ones, including the wife to not be intimidated valence or even also child. so for me, when i realized that i would be leaving hong kong issue, a complex statement about differing my ties 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 mammy troublemaker fall in fact, her or anything that they could hundreds my reputation of course talking you individually, but they are also trying to describe the whole movement, who's even in london, i still do, rather the cautious about my safety. we all understand how extensive china's reach could be thought being living. it's chris live and trying to be protecting myself. but the future phone caught like the shop. my fisher is definitely great, but a long term future. for me as an active, i'm not main titled to lose hope. my duty to and how people use and 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 been watching a special edition of our program on hong kong. how was changed and where it was the next time? here at the listing, the when the code is 910 demi q and board is close there as well as transit from high one. 0, one east investigates has been abandoned out of size and out of mind on al jazeera

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