On Sunday afternoon, CitizenNews announced “with great heartache” that it will end its journalistic activities.
An independent Hong Kong website that distributes informative content announced on Sunday that it is ending its activities “to guarantee everyone’s safety”, three days after the police carried out a raid on another independent media, accused of sedition.
CitizenNews, an information page financed by its users, which was founded in 2017 by a group of journalists, is one of the most popular sources of information in Hong Kong, with more than 800,000 subscribers on social networks.
In 2021, it had hired journalists from other outlets, after authorities increase their control over the press. Hong Kong Radio Television came under the control of pro-Beijing leaders and the pro-democracy Apple Daily, accused of posing a threat to national security, was forced to shut down.
We announced with a heavy heart that CitizenNews will cease operation starting from Jan 4 (Tue).
To our subscribers and readers, we sincerely thank you for your support. We shall always treasure this incredible journey in the past five years. pic.twitter.com/32nSlQFAZR— CitizenNews (@hkcnews_com) January 2, 2022
On Sunday afternoon, CitizenNews announced “with great heartache“That will put an end to its activities on Tuesday and that its website will close” later. “
“Unfortunately not we can keep trying to transform our convictions actually without feeling fear, due to the radical change in society in the last two years and the deterioration of the media environment, “said the outlet in a statement.
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China increased his control over Hong Kong in the wake of the massive and often violent pro-democracy demonstrations that shook the city in 2019. One way of doing this was repress the local press.
On Wednesday, the police carried out a raid on the newsroom of StandNews, a medium similar to CitizenNews, which announced its closure hours later. (I)
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