In Hong Kong, the government is redefining ‘the right to know’
Three years after China imposed a wide-ranging national security law on Hong Kong, the commercial hub looks like it has returned to normalcy. The riots of 2019 are unlikely to be on the minds of people shopping in its crammed malls and eating in its packed restaurants. But the lives of all 7 million Hong Kongers have been affected by the new political order.
But Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee has rejected calls for a deadline for the police to either prosecute or close the remaining cases. Before his termination, both Ming Pao and Zunzi had been excoriated by senior officials in the Lee administration, including Mr. Lee and the secretary for security, Chris Tang, who claimed that the artist had “targeted the government more than once and made misleading accusations over the past six months.”
That expression – “the right to know” – is often used in the context of asserting citizens’ right to access government or corporate data. In Hong Kong, it seems, its meaning has been twisted into the government’s right to silence its critics.
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