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An incident on Wednesday, in which a representative for Reporters Without Borders (RSF) was denied permission to enter Hong Kong to observe the national security trial of political and media figu...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/04/quote-of-the-day-we-have-never-experienced-such-blatant-efforts-to-evade-scrutiny-of-court-proceedings-in-any-country/

In its annual report on the state of media freedom in China last year, the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China (FCCC) described how authorities used COVID prevention measures to “strangle�...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/04/journalists-document-decline-of-media-freedom-in-china-hong-kong/

In the wake of the Article 23 legislation passed two weeks ago in Hong Kong, further constricting media and speech freedom, there have been a number of bookstore closures and media departures fro...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/04/quote-of-the-day-all-beautiful-things-will-eventually-be-destroyed-let-us-not-forget-that-this-is-a-place-where-dreams-are-punished/

The atmosphere for media freedom in Hong Kong has become increasingly inhospitable since the 2020 National Security Law (NSL) and the Article 23 legislation that passed last week. The latest exam...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/04/rfa-leaves-hong-kong-citing-safety-concerns-for-staff-amid-article-23/

Among Xi Jinping’s many Party-bestowed titles and hundreds of banned netizen nicknames is one that points to his penchant for claiming personal leadership over and insight into seemingly everyt...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/03/compass-in-chief-the-240-topics-xi-jinping-has-pointed-the-way-forward-on/

On Tuesday, Hong Kong’s legislature unanimously passed a new national security law that grants the government sweeping powers to crack down on opposition. Linked to Article 23 of the city’s B...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/03/hong-kong-legislature-unanimously-passes-fast-tracked-national-security-law/

Hong Kong is set to pass a new domestic national security law that critics worry will further curtail civil liberties already endangered by the 2020 National Security Law imposed by China. The pa...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/03/hong-kong-article-23-national-security-law-fast-tracked-under-ccp-pressure/

Argentinian soccer superstar Lionel Messi’s apology to Chinese fans last week for sitting out a friendly match in Hong Kong has done little to quiet nationalist outrage on the mainland. In earl...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/02/messi-mess-highlights-fragile-psyche-of-hong-kong-and-mainland-chinese-nationalists/

On Tuesday, the Hong Kong government released a 110-page consultation document that outlined plans for yet another national security law. This homegrown law joins a long list of recent initiative...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/01/hong-kong-government-pushes-new-homegrown-national-security-law/

On September 12, 2003, John Battelle published the first post on chinadigitaltimes.net: Here’s what a Google Search on “china weblog” yields, I’m looking forward to seeing ours at the top...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2023/12/lexicon-20th-anniversary-edition/

A new draft patriotic education law submitted last week to the National People’s Congress Standing Committee is spurring spirited online debate. Broad in scope, the draft law includes provision...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2023/07/online-responses-to-new-draft-legislation-on-patriotic-education/

In the latest example of shrinking space for free expression in Hong Kong, authorities there have formally sought an injunction against “Glory to Hong Kong,” the unofficial anthem of Hong Kon...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2023/06/hong-kong-protest-anthem-disappears-as-deradicalization-programs-for-political-protesters-expand/

Sunday marked the 34th anniversary of the 1989 June 4th crackdown. In Hong Kong, in a stark sign of the city’s political trajectory over the past several years, authorities stifled the formerly...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2023/06/nationalist-carnival-and-detentions-meet-hong-kong-june-4th-commemorations/

Local media outlets in Hong Kong report that hundreds of books on political topics including the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre are no longer available in the city’s public libraries, after the city�...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2023/05/hong-kong-government-purges-politically-sensitive-books-from-libraries/

World Press Freedom Day, on May 3, has rarely been a time for celebration in China, where restrictions on the media have kept the country near the bottom of Reporters Without Borders’ (RSF) Pre...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2023/05/china-ranked-179th-of-180-countries-for-journalism-conditions-on-world-press-freedom-day/