Veteran Hong Kong journalist arrested for ‘sedition’AFP, HONG KONGA veteran Hong Kong journalist was yesterday arrested by national security police for allegedly conspiring to publish “seditious materials,” police said. The arrest is the latest blow to the media in Hong Kong, which has seen its freedom rating plummet as Beijing cracks down on dissent. Allan Au (區家麟), a 54-year-old reporter and journalism lecturer, was arrested in a dawn raid by the Hong Kong National Security Police unit, multiple local media outlets reported. One of the territory’s most experienced local columnists, he was a Knight fellow at Stanford University in 2005 and earned a doctorate from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Au in 2017 published a book about censorship in Hong Kong titled Freedom Under 20 Shades of Shadow.

Source: Taipei Times April 11, 2022 22:21 UTC