{"id":43892,"date":"2022-04-26T09:00:51","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T00:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/26\/free-media-in-hong-kong-almost-completely-dismantled-report"},"modified":"2022-04-26T09:00:51","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T00:00:51","slug":"free-media-in-hong-kong-almost-completely-dismantled-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43892","title":{"rendered":"Free media in Hong Kong almost completely dismantled \u2013 report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Government crackdown has cleared market for an expanded pro-Beijing and state-owned media sector<\/p>\n<p>Free media in Hong Kong has been almost completely dismantled by the government crackdown, clearing the market for an expanded pro-Beijing and state-owned media sector, a new report has said.<\/p>\n<p>The report, by UK-based advocacy group Hong Kong Watch, came shortly after Hong Kong\u2019s Foreign Correspondent\u2019s Club announced it was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/25\/hong-kong-human-rights-press-awards-foreign-correspondents-club-scrapped-security-law-fears\">suspending its Human Rights Press Awards<\/a> because it did not want to unintentionally violate the city\u2019s wide-ranging national security law imposed in 2020 by Beijing.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/26\/free-media-in-hong-kong-almost-completely-dismantled-report\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government crackdown has cleared market for an expanded pro-Beijing and state-owned media sectorFree media in Hong Kong has been almost completely dismantled by the government crackdown, clearing the market for an expanded pro-Beijing and state-owned m&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,48,238,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-media","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43893,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43892\/revisions\/43893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}