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how countries to secure corporate 90 vaccines will be speaking to the w t o. u. director general counting the coast on al jazeera. ah hello, i'm richard. yes, burton, you're watching the 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 colony, back to china. with that hand over came a set of promises, begging would stay out of hong kong, internal affairs keep its hands off 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 on young. why ye, guy cherry target? hi, paul o young wake at joyce haga with juliano. 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 home 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 has seen more than 10000 protesters and rested, and dozens of disciplines killed the result of the transformation that's been 24 years in the making since july the 1st 1997. ah, since today 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 and the chinese side were able to make it work as they came up with this amazing formula that 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 that way. they could, they thought it alongside got up. hey, i wouldn't tell you see, going as it's a hey monica, somebody and 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 your legal, that guy we are the men 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 ports ere 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 on our page 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 under more direct in direct oh pressure or the hifi will double check that pilot yancey. we hate to hung on stop phones. i am might a little was i will enjoy all holmes and cbl and highway one. sometimes i, they, they, joe, real topical goldman. i am lay while you go homemaking and i tell my gum. the i 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, he shunned on the cushion, enable sure, sure, john, good. and they don't that change infuriate his home commerce and for 79 days, mass protests called the umbrella movement, paralyzed to city. beijing responded by ratcheting up. it's correct down on descent 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 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 press. nothing less than before is all vibrant and very diverse people with smear or ongoing by saying that 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 gum shook 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. honecliff police tried hard to quell the protests at times with brutal force. 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 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 raided. 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. sometimes you'll see like a little moby all got you boy totally a lot for money. got thing. how can you call you when we want a hey, thank you and then come via for me that you really joy thomas. i'm going to have more seattle game. we'll be may we both have employee both eager that got all dog

coco, coco to the account number. feel, 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 or take a change or the top odl on the we're 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 can use it on the c or they can hold all paper and you're saying i'm she was such all today your dial. i got up and got i'm

gone. yeah, hold on the way tom some to go with john 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. on footage. last year, she was arrested from her investigation into white police, didn't intervene in a violent mob attack on pro democracy protesters in 2019. i reckon states she looked through publicly available vehicle registration databases to track down the attackers. the 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 $800.00 us dollars,

and cov, oh gosh, how ya doing act? ega obligation lies on much sions. hot air, so have only had own gay eldon's at ease a hike opens up a lot. i my some see her hotel on ball was always a high gay in these. how was all cold a hard at 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 prob,

aging bureaucrat and ext various of its program. while they say the gall, that he loves her, but if she comes on he said, type things up. sure. high things while you homes, i see her home, you know, the thing, we got the angle high, high full moving full height height on the, on the have a sample to be on ball. so i can go for we go to me on the top, it seems to ryan 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 the red line 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 of 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 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 how what i'm and i'm going take all last thing not to see how you hung on the hey leo on to compensate. go go on. come so you gotta get see how you go by her so you won't get she'll come the honda. how old is your higher goal? say whole man call they dont awesome and they phone height would be half full function. which direction was he's among job 60 white over the phone.

have a mixed all on capital with joe, your 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 booksellers . there now 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 judiciary, 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 in 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 prop again the 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 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 li check 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 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 all i thought to the idea of this dreadful museum during the 20th anniversary of the tamara square mosque because in china, everyone is sort of being told a lie about $9089.00 is

a complete black out of 89 history. so we want the truth to come out. the april 15th 1989, the previous general secretary of the congress body. we are dying and he was a very popular reformer. and so i problem a lot of food in my to go and more. busy has them and then the morning begins to turn into a be mindful anti corruption reform. chrissy and susan began to come out on march to occupy the canons way from the audio regina con them demonstrate the student as and to revolutionary.

and then on june form, they decided standing homie and frank donald to today down no official rec, calling of how many people are dying. in 1989 there was no one knows me and the congress body is, of course, tried to suppress all information about what happened. so the idea was, since there are so many chinese people coming to all call, it would be very, very important to have a physical museum. the future full, the museum is pipe on a certain. and because the, the congress body using the nations even though they are using it in

a very arbitrary way, the red line can always shift and they can always strangle sol before. and the nation signal was enact that we started the process of trying to plan for 9 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 4th oh, after thing, after 42 years is the same regime and they won't tolerate descent and democracy and soul. 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 life a phone call 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, 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 is 1st off 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 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 turing, i've got cartoon and to one day this is a, b, 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 course we have to use this opportunity to, to, to continue to express ourselves. instead of laying down our pan and surrender

in 20, 20 june sites to leave hong kong. 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 activist. if you know that or in termination going to vancouver, the funds bobby, we've funds friends of the roku around we have gone to friends, don't we? 25 people. so it be hope to both country young off the phone will be good if you question cheapens your way by you young build on that

fall. and in hong kong, you just can't talk genuinely about your thoughts towards the baking 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. 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 caution about my safety. we all understand how extensive china reach could be thought being living as 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 access, i'm not main titled to lose hope. my duty to and how people choose and contains 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 lea truck yard 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 church. 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. ah, african stories of resilience and courage. i gangadean iowa. aware been one of us is one of the central battle. haven't got yet lloyd, am kind of tradition and dedication, but a little don't. little more robust with holes. couldn't go jewelry lynette,

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