Approximately one year after the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) enforced the National Security Law in Hong Kong, Mr. Yip (pseudonym), a former journalist in that city, left for the U.K. to avoid harassment or possible arrest by the authoritarian Chinese regime. In an interview with The Epoch Times Chinese edition, he recalled his reporting of the anti-extradition bill protests in the island city, weeping because he felt sorry that he could no longer report the facts for Hong Kongers, and sad that fellow reporters were being charged and jailed for telling the true situation in Hong Kong. Yip worked for several media in Hong Kong. He is a member of the Hong Kong Journalists Association and holds an IFJ International Press Card (IPC). He traveled to France in 2018 to report on the “Mouvement des gilets jaunes,” or “Yellow vest movement,” initially, a protest against a planned tax increase on …
Former Hong Kong Journalist Fled Hong Kong in Fear of Arrest
July 9, 2021
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