{"id":1187432,"date":"2022-01-04T14:20:06","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T19:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1187432"},"modified":"2022-01-04T14:20:23","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T19:20:23","slug":"hong-kong-leader-dismisses-press-freedom-criticisms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hong-kong-leader-dismisses-press-freedom-criticisms\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong leader dismisses press freedom criticisms"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/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%2Fhong-kong-leader-dismisses-press-freedom-criticisms%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=1187432&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--><div id=\"attachment_2626351\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2626351\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2626351\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/AP22004202667196.jpg\" alt=\"FILE - Chris Yeung, founder and chief writer of Citizen News waves to journalists after a news conference outside his office in Hong Kong, Monday, Jan. 3, 2022. Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said Tuesday that the recent closure of two media outlets in the city cannot be associated with the state of press freedom in Hong Kong as the decisions were made by the outlets themselves. (AP Photo\/Vincent Yu, File)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"725\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/AP22004202667196.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/AP22004202667196-297x210.jpg 297w, https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/AP22004202667196-617x437.jpg 617w, https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/AP22004202667196-768x544.jpg 768w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2626351\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE \u2013 Chris Yeung, founder and chief writer of Citizen News waves to journalists after a news conference outside his office in Hong Kong, Monday, Jan. 3, 2022. Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said Tuesday that the recent closure of two media outlets in the city cannot be associated with the state of press freedom in Hong Kong as the decisions were made by the outlets themselves. (AP Photo\/Vincent Yu, File)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 10:59 AM PT \u2013 Tuesday, January 4, 2022<\/h5>\n<p>Hong Kong is seeing the extinction of its longstanding freedom of press, but the region\u2019s leader, Carrie Lam, is dismissing worries. While speaking Tuesday, regional Chief Executive Lam said she rejects the idea of so-called \u201cWestern media\u201d suggesting that free press is dying in the territory.<\/p>\n<p>This statement came after multiple pro-democracy newspapers were shuttered due to fears surrounding the nation\u2019s recently enacted national security law. According to Lam, everyone agrees that press freedoms should be guaranteed just as long as the press agrees with the Chinese Communist Party.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>\u201cBut nothing is more important than the rule of law in Hong Kong,\u201d Lam stated. \u201cAnd journalists and media organizations like all of us have to respect and comply with the law. If they are fearful of not being able to comply with the law then they have to make up their mind and take the necessary decisions.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Deeply concerned by the closure of Stand News and related arrests in Hong Kong. A\u202fconfident government that is unafraid of the truth embraces a free press. We call on the\u202fHong Kong authorities to stop targeting the independent media and release those unjustly detained.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Secretary Antony Blinken (@SecBlinken) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SecBlinken\/status\/1476373236090814468?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 30, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Hong Kong was supposed to be guaranteed freedom from CCP overreach until 2047 following its handover from Britain 25-years ago. However, it has been battling for autonomy for the past several years.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/bidens-covid-19-response-continues-to-be-called-into-question\/\">Biden\u2019s COVID-19 Response Continues To Be Called Into Question<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"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-1187432","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\/1187432","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\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1187432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187432\/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=1187432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1187432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1187432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}