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perception of the beholder behind the camera? preconceptions, one sided imagery, reclaiming narrative, and the trauma of colonialist ation. and it lingering legacy, delicately addressed as a weapon to make a scene in the democratic republic of congo. filming a witness documentary on out today with the alarm 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 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 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 gene 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. 2 in 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 organ? why? joy harjo would love to we all know even the most optimistic to this find it difficult to have reason for optimism about journalists may have to pay a price for the editors to seek the truth in a place once known for its openness and civil liberties. now the place of political persecution in a corrected free speech. a city that in the last 2 years alone has been more than 10000 protesters arrested, and dozens of dissidence 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 and come for more than 150 years, returned its colony to shine. ending 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 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, hunger and we could have gone along. so i got, hey, when you think it say, hey, monique, somebody and john l d p and i haven't gone home. all of them case, i've got to use so much money. so you recall that guy we met from

china did not become like hong kong. if anything in the 24 year since 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 are 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 mark change or tactic of a change was towards hong kong, more control, more innovations and more presence in the way we've gotten to media vision, not in mil to those strange of strategy. so beginning from that we've seen the media and double the read in direct pressure. the hygiene we got that pilot. see, we have to hung on stop fun and i will enjoy all homes and people in car we want they, they don't topic on what you go home again. and i tell my certainly with my mike in the me being 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 see radically changed the election process for the cities. my senior political representative, the chief executive jungle. you 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, right. and for $79.00 days, mass protests called the umbrella movement paralyzed the city. beijing responded by registering up. it's correct down on the since the morning to 1000 people were arrested for their ruined demonstrations and at least 127 were convicted. china also intensified to suit on hong kong media since 2014,

at least 5 major mainstream media outlets got new probation owners, including hong kong, dominant broadcaster t v b. and it's leading english newspaper the south china morning for those outlets of minutes to hold out against a pressure begging, 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. iving is time for me to build these. i'm recruit and unwarranted accusation. the media enjoy all the freedom of brass. nothing less than before. is all vibrant and very diverse people with me or hong kong 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. they realize that hong kong suddenly was a problem. and then along comes the 2019 protests. and that's where i think china last, it's 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 protest. at times, withdrew to force the bay. jing seized on the year long unrest to introduce legislation. a strict new national security law,

designed to curb dissent in hong kong once and for 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 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 stroke 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 mean, i think they told me multi all got you more koto, me

a lot for money. got thing. how can i call you when we want a thing and then come via for me that you believe, thomas? i'm going to have more seattle game we'll be made. we both made both eager. go ahead and double click on the account number, they feel 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 that done again, the central government. so if you are running a media with an agenda to sort of dangling our country's national security, there's something wrong, isn't it? the social altogether change or the top odl on the we're see how old or her to be at your conference. you can leave his lease on her phone. you

want to go home, see him, how you legal haunts id or something you don't, you don't see or they can hold all on paper and you're saying i'm, she was such, all you know, you're on godaddy. com. yeah. hold on the word tom, something which 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. d online footage. 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 men. we reckon 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 returned the listing purposes, joy knowingly made a false statement. she was to find nearly $800.00 us dollars and co autopay. she shouldn't stop. we don't get yelled in either. hi coping some more than i might see her hotel, but we shall hike in the town all cold. a hard edge on both o'clock. come to start her height and we can go, someone's yelled. it's no longer just a shame that coming for hong kong media. the city chief executive carry land and will many of called her pro china rubber stamp governments are cracking down to take now 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 r t h. case management, and editorial direction. it has since replaced its director with a probation bureaucrat and ext various of its programs. all they saw the girl that loves her baby, she comes on how they tight things up. sure. hi things lawyer who holmes. i see her home, you know, the thing we got that got a high high football thing for height. height thing for the jack on the heck are they supposed to be on ball so i can go and go to the scenes the riot 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 th k they, they're simply crossing right lined, going against the charge of they must have been is their responsibility to regulate,

to make sure that our k will be back on the right track. ah, going by. it's news political show, a program hosted by the chief executive herself. so they gave and there is little doubt as to which direction r t h k is 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 patriot 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 long bossing. love to see how you got hung on gums or hey leo, and to compensate google chrome. so you gotta see how you go by her

mom. she'll come by honda. how are you? hi, i will say whole megan call. awesome. and our day phone height would be half full on some work. i don't see someone going on over the phone, have a high or they mixed up with joe, you're report doc. you match 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,

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 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 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 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 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 10 square mosque. because in china, everyone is sort of 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 reformer. and so a lot of students to go and mourn with them. and then the morning begins to turn into the mind for anti corruption legally for the critique, and the soon begin to come out on march to occupy the canons way.

but the audio regina condemn demonstrates the students as and to revolutionary i. and then they decide that in me and frank donald to today they know official rec, calling them off, 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 hall hall, it would be very, very important to have a physical museum. the future for the museum

is pipe, uncertain, and leach because the, the congress party use in the nation is below. 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 enact 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 $8940.00, after thing, after 42 years is the same regime and they won't paula rate the sense and democracy. and so this is very much rather than to day because the fight is due on me. 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 k 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 i think this is

the only 2 newspaper that allowed me to grow cartoon. but there are a lot of father young cotton where it's not the 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. they used to make fun of seeing things so right right now they are afraid of doing as trying to cotton their right lives everywhere. and 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 touring. i've got cartoon until one day. this is a lie. if the thing 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 that i'll be here to doing interviewing the okay to be wanted under the national security law and to become an ex out activist, if you know the rigor in should be shunting vancouver the funds. bobby, we've our funds, if you go around we can do that. we 25 people. so

a p hope to vote country jungle. the fun way be good if you question even runs your way by you from the junk bail bond that far. and in hong kong, you just can't talk genuinely about your thoughts towards the beijing government. what the status phone call of human rights activists. not only themselves being intimidated, cultured out their loved ones, including the wife tutor, and i'll be intimidated valence or even also child. so for me, when i realized that i would be leaving hong kong issue 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 allow, 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, how can 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 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 great, but in the long term future for me as an effort, i'm not main titled to lose hope. my duties to and how people 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 the 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, you're at the list of the talk to al jazeera. we roll,

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