Daily Telegraph: Hong Kong’s free press – My Letter in today’s Daily Telegraph –
SIR – The closure of Hong Kong’s Apple Daily newspaper today, following the arrest of its staff and freezing of its assets, should concern all those who care about press freedom.After the imposition of the national security law in June last year, this latest assault on Apple Daily is a particularly graphic example of the Chinese Communist Party’s long campaign against dissent and democracy in Hong Kong – which has also seen the imprisonment of the paper’s founder, Jimmy Lai.
I am once again wondering where global Britain is. Will the custodians of the Sino-British joint declaration speak up on the egregious violation of human rights, and for press freedom?
Lord Alton of Liverpool
Vice Chair, All-Party Parliamentary Group on Hong Kong London SW1
