In light of the sudden replacement of Ming Pao’s Chinese newspaper chief editor and termination of government critic and Commercial Radio host, Li Wei-ling, the Hong Kong Journalists Association had set to stage a Sunday protest in support of press freedom.
The planner protest route would start at Chater Garden and march towards the government headquarters at Tamar.
However, a pro-Beijing group claims that they were first to apply for permission to demonstrate monitoring the media, where the Council on Media Conduct Supervision will rally at 3pm with an expected 800 participants.
The HKJA then applied to rally outside the Chief Executive Office but was rejected by the police. The police are proposing the Legislative Council or Tamar Park but the HKJA believes it’s unacceptable.
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Source: The Standard
Photo: HKJA Facebook
