{"id":1172134,"date":"2021-12-30T09:19:56","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T14:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1172134"},"modified":"2021-12-30T09:20:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T14:20:00","slug":"journalism-is-not-sedition-blinken-slams-police-raid-on-hong-kong-news-outlet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/journalism-is-not-sedition-blinken-slams-police-raid-on-hong-kong-news-outlet\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Journalism Is Not Sedition\u2019: Blinken Slams Police Raid On Hong Kong News Outlet"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjournalism-is-not-sedition-blinken-slams-police-raid-on-hong-kong-news-outlet%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1172134&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday slammed Hong Kong police\u2019s raid of Stand News and the arrest of seven of its employees, calling out China\u2019s \u201ctargeting\u201d of free press.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJournalism is not sedition,\u201d Blinken said, calling on the Hong Kong authorities to \u201cimmediately\u201d release the journalists arrested on the grounds that they were \u201cunjustly detained and charged.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFreedom of expression, including media freedom, and access to information provided by an independent media are critical to prosperous and secure societies,\u201d Blinken said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/stand-news-arrests-and-closure\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statement<\/a>. \u201cThese freedoms enabled Hong Kong to flourish as a global center for finance, trade, education, and culture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy silencing independent media, PRC and local authorities undermine Hong Kong\u2019s credibility and viability,\u201d Blinken said. \u201cA confident government that is unafraid of the truth embraces a free press.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/16\/china-hong-kong-jimmy-lai-apple-daily\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: China Carries Out Another Attack On The Free Press)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7344744\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7344744\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stand News Editor-in-Chief Patrick Lam is brought into a vehicle after police searched the premises at the independent news outlet office on Wednesday. (Anthony Kwan\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Hundreds of Hong Kong police officers carried out the raid Wednesday, the latest in a series of crackdowns at the hands of Beijing\u2019s communist regime. Stand News, a pro-democracy outlet, said after the raid that it would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/12\/29\/world\/asia\/hong-kong-stand-news-arrest.html\">shut down immediately<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStand News\u2019s editorial policy was to be independent and committed to safeguarding Hong Kong\u2019s core values of democracy, human rights, freedom, the rule of law and justice,\u201d the announcement said, The New York Times reported. \u201cThank you, readers, for your continued support.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The crackdown is not the first carried out by Hong Kong\u2019s government as China moves to reassert control over the semi-autonomous territory. In 2020, the Chinese Communist Party passed a national security law in an attempt to quell pro-democracy protests, some of which turned violent. Police also raided Apple Daily, another pro-democracy outlet in Hong Kong, earlier this year, and they arrested Jimmy Lai, its top executive, ultimately <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/23\/apple-daily-hong-kong-china\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">forcing the organization to shut down<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong\u2019s pro-Beijing leader, Carrie Lam, has yet to comment on the raid and how newsrooms can avoid being raided by police in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday slammed Hong Kong police\u2019s raid of Stand News and the arrest of seven of its employees, calling out China\u2019s \u201ctargeting\u201d of free press.\u201cJournalism &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1172134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1172134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1172134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1172134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1172134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}