Pro-independence activist Chan Ho-tin is delivering a sold-out speech at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club, after the club resisted pressure from Beijing to drop the event.
HKFP first reported on August 3 that the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Hong Kong had attempted to block the speech.
Management at public broadcaster RTHK have told staff not to live-stream the talk. And in a week-long series of Facebook posts, former leader Leung Chun-ying has said that Chan’s platform is comparable to promoting “racism, anti-semitism or Nazism.”
Full coverage:
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- Journalists Assoc. expresses ‘extreme regret’ over RTHK ban on live-streaming talk
- RTHK bans staff from live-streaming pro-independence activist’s press club speech
- CY Leung raised issue of Correspondents’ Club lease before, ex-board member says
- CY Leung says he is not threatening press club over pro-independence speaker
- Head of press club refutes claim it pays gov’t ‘token rent’
- Ex-governor Chris Patten hits back at Beijing over press club row
- Ex-leader CY Leung hits out at correspondents’ club over activist talk
- Pro-independence activist Andy Chan condemns move to censor talk
- Beijing tries to block pro-independence activist Andy Chan talk at press club
