Hongkong-radio lägger ner: ”För farligt politiskt”
Den pro-demokratiska, nätbaserade radiostationen ”Citizens radio station” i Hongkong slutar med sina sändningar, rapporterar The Guardian. Anledningen är enligt grundaren Tsang Kin-shing att den politiska situationen i staden blivit för farlig.
Stationen grundades 2005 och har sedan dess gjort sig kända för sin myndighetskritik och årslånga kamp för pressfrihet.
– Den röda linjen finns överallt och det har blivit svårt att bjuda in gäster till programmet, säger Tsang.
I veckan var det tre år sedan Pekingregeringen införde en ny hård säkerhetslag. Sedan dess har många regimkritiker fängslats eller flytt Hongkong.
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Hong Kong (US: or UK: ; Chinese: 香港, Cantonese: [hœ́ːŋ.kɔ̌ːŋ] (listen)), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and a special administrative region in China. With 7.4 million residents of various nationalities in a 1,104-square-kilometre (426 sq mi) territory, Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated territories in the world.
Hong Kong was established as a colony of the British Empire after the Qing Empire ceded Hong Kong Island in 1841-1842. The colony expanded to the Kowloon Peninsula in 1860 and was further extended when Britain obtained a 99-year lease of the New Territories in 1898. Hong Kong was shortly occupied by Japan from 1941 to 1945 during World War II. The whole territory was transferred from Britain to China in 1997. Hong Kong maintains separate governing and economic systems from that of mainland China under the principle of "one country, two systems".Originally a sparsely populated area of farming and fishing villages, the territory is now one of the world's most significant financial centres and commercial ports. Hong Kong is the world's fourth-ranked global financial centre, ninth-largest exporter, and eighth-largest importer. Its currency, the Hong Kong dollar, is the eighth most traded currency in the world. Home to the second-highest number of billionaires of any city in the world, Hong Kong has the largest concentration of ultra high-net-worth individuals. Although the city has one of the highest per capita incomes in the world, severe income inequality exists among the population. Despite having the largest number of skyscrapers of any city in the world, housing in Hong Kong has been well-documented to experience a chronic persistent shortage.
Hong Kong is a highly developed territory and has a Human Development Index (HDI) of 0.952, ranking fourth in the world. The city has a very low homicide rate, the second highest life expectancy, and a public transport rate exceeding 90%.
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