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mattel to year he. hello richard, gus brit. 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 its colony back to china. with that hand over came a set of promises. bay jang would stay out of hong kong. internal affairs keep its hands of its freedoms, including it's free press. but for many hong kong, 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, johanna who's on how hong kong got here from a city of liberties to one that's under a songs ah. 2 don't go on, always enjoyed the most open, liberal press in the region. oh, well what we're seeing over the last year or 2 has been more like a death by a 1000 cuts. oh yes. why ye guy cherry target. hi paul o young wake at joyce. hi gaye, i was actually all nail even the most optimistic jo. this found it difficult to have reason for optimism. now, journalist may have to pay a price for the effort to seek the tool

hung cone, a place once known for its openness and civil liberties. now a place of political persecution and a correct on free speech. a city that in the last 2 years alone seem more than 10000 protesters and rested, and dozens of disciplines killed. the results of the transformation that's been 24 years in the making since july, the 1st 1997. ah, that's to day the united kingdom, which had ruled him come 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 in the chinese side were able to make it work as they came up with this amazing formula, said we'll have one country. but it'll be 2 systems by the way, why co op o things, i mean, but been, i'm case a hung gotten at, we'd say could a policy alongside got up hey, i wouldn't tell you, see, going as a him on, even with somebody in john while the been far all year. i've been built on hong kong, tom dolack, i'm case that i got a game. oh yes. it's a merced maya type. so you why you know legal at that guy we are, the man from china did not become like hong kong. if anything in the 24 year since the 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. a 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 the british colony, hong kong had grown into a global financial hub and its thriving port, air links, and access to foreign 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 2 thousands, beijing started to re think it's hong kong strategy. beginning perhaps from 20 all 3. when there's marked change of tactic, i'm up aging to was to was a hong kong mall control more innovations and more presence in the way we

govern. the media isn't not immune to those strange of strategy. so beginning from that, we've seen that media on dumble direct in direct oh pressure, or the highs. he will double check that pilot yancey were high to hung on stop phones. i am my little was i will enjoy all holmes in cbl and conway bonds homes. either they jodi a topical goldman. hi, lee, what you go homemaking? and i tell my gms, i ed said the way my my like in the ohio the me, me good being bama. china's tougher approach to hong kong was solidified in 2012. when siege 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 will get out to what of i bought. great. your gun, john. guy. the sure. sure. sure. we shunned on the cushion enable. sure. sure.

don't go. and they don't. oh, the change infuriated home congress and for 79 days mass protests caught the umbrella movement, paralyzed the city. beijing responded by ratcheting up it's crick down on descent. more than a 1000 people were arrested for their ruined demonstrations and at least 127 were convicted. china also intensified it to suit on hong kong media since 2014, at least 5 major mainstream media outlets got new pro beijing owners, including hong kong, dominic broadcaster t v b, and it's leading english newspaper, the south china, more post for those outlets that managed to hold out against a pressure, beijing wielded it considerable commercial muscle boycotting advertisements and pro democracy tabloids like apple daily. regardless, hold and chow,

the vice chairman of the largest pro beijing party in hong kong government, denies any crack down on the cities, media freedoms, iving his time for me to we've built these. i'm cool and unwarranted accusations the media enjoy all the freedom of brass. nothing less than before is all by brendan, very diverse, people with smear or ongoing by saying that while 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 us 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 gonna shut them up in beijing. they realised that hong kong suddenly was a problem. and then along come the 2019

a protests and that's where i think china lost its patience. 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. whom police tried hard to quell the protests at times with brutal force. beijing 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 outlaws, secession, subversion, and collusion with foreign forces. eager 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 you'll see like a little moby all got you more code only a lot for money. got thing. how can i call you when we want a hey, thank you and come via for me that you thomas? i'm going to have more seattle game. we'll be, may we both have both eager thought 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 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 and thing during our countries national security, there's something wrong, isn't it? the social alterations or the things have odl on? why don't we see how our old or her to be on bush all 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 see or they can hold all on paper. you're saying i'm she was such all your dial. i got up and got i'm gone. yeah, hold on the way down some to go which will charm with bow chewy speaks from experience. as a freelance producer for hong kong public broadcast,

her radio television, hong kong or r t h k. she's become a target for her reporting. for the last year, she was arrested from her investigation into white police didn't intervene in a violent mob attack on pro democracy protest. her new 2019 reco 6. she looked through publicly available vehicle registration databases to track down the attackers. a practice that the prosecution seized on, alleging that by failing to declare that her search was for journalistic purposes, join knowingly made a false statement. she was find nearly 800 u. s. dollars and cov, oh gosh, how holding up ega obligation lies on what sions hot air, so have only had own gay yelled in such a high goggins about a long time. my charm see her own bowl was always a high,

gay in these hi. all was all cold, a hard edge on both alkaline gum and the what's your thought of her hydro? cham were gay call was a man's. yup. it's no longer just beijing that's coming for hong kong media. the city's chief executive carry lamp and will many of called her pro china rubber stamp governments are cracking down to take bow choice employer, artie hage. k, the public broadcast that used to have a reputation for its critical journalism. one following it. coverage of the $2900.00 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 bureaucrats and ext various of its programs. all this other call that i love so basing. yeah. and come down. he said things will up. sure. hi things

lawyer who holmes. i see her home. you know the thing. yeah. we got a high ho full moving full height height on jack on the head. a simple to be on ball 2nd go for we go to me on 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 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, to 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 k 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 trial what i'm and i'm going to take long bossing, not to see how you hung on gums or hey leo on the carpet and cycle go when they come. so you gotta see how you go by her. so she'll come back to holiday. so you higher goal say whole my call said awesome. and they phone height would be half full function would cease among java. 60 white over the phone have a like, so long capital with joe,

you're report documents the way china's crack 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 bookstore 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 you 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. and 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 with that? are they going silent? finance. 3 on congress. 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 $19809.00 chinaman square massacre. a topic that is completely off limits in china 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 chi quan better known under his 10 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 tax out in london because the authorities back home were going out of their way to silence in little i thought to the idea of this dream for museum during the 20th anniversary of the tenants square moscow. because in china, everyone is thought 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 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 chairman's way, a button on the audio regina condemn demonstrates the stimulated s n to revolutionary i. and then they decided standing army and frank donald

to 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. but the future for the museum is pipe uncertain. busy and leach, 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 enact that we started the process of trying to

plan for i'm use the 1st thing we have been july after saying 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 $89.00 4th oh, after thing, after 42 years is the same regime and they won't paula rate 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 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 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 colony a few came back. cartoon has always been very powerful that 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 go cartoon. but there are a lot of father, young cotton is 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 red lines everywhere. and 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 turing, i've got cartoon and to one day, this is a, b, i. e, 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 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, she's going to vancouver the funds all be we've our funds. if you go around we have gone to friends, don't we? 25 people. so it be hope to vote. country on the phone will be good if you question cheapens your way by the jump. bail bond that far. and in hong kong, you just can't talk genuinely about your thoughts towards the baking government and what the status phone call of human rights activists. not only themselves being

intimidated cultured out their loved ones, including the white tutoring, not being 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 lau in front of you is most appro democracy activist is a fugitive from the law of hong kong. the major government has always been trying to mammy troublemaker fall in fact, her or anything that they could hundreds my reputation. of course, they're 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 live enough. is chris live and trying to be protecting myself beneficial phone calls like the shop? my fisher is definitely great, but a long term future for me as an actor. i'm not my title to lose hope. my duties too, and how people complain. 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 here at the listing of the with with

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