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Monday, July 26, 2004 |
RAIDS ON NEWSROOMS LEAVE HONG KONG MEDIA STUNNED [RFA]
HONG KONG, July 26, 2004—A series of “cowboy” raids by Hong Kong graft-busters on eight major media organizations have stunned journalists, re-igniting concerns over freedom of the press in the former British colony since its handover to Chinese rule. Officers of the territory’s Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) raided the desks and homes of several court reporters in the weekend raids in a move that has left media and rights groups stunned by its apparent heavy-handedness, RFA’s Cantonese and Mandarin services report. [more]
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