This is the best summary I could come up with:
“Actions by Hong Kong authorities, including referring to RFA as a ‘foreign force,’ raise serious questions about our ability to operate in safety with the enactment of Article 23,” Bay Fang, president and chief executive of Radio Free Asia, said in a statement.
Fang said that while Radio Free Asia will retain its official media registration, the outlet has closed its physical bureau in Hong Kong and no longer has full-time employees in the city, where it had operated since 1996.
The Safeguarding National Security Ordinance, also referred to as the Article 23 law, was enacted on March 23 after being approved unanimously by Hong Kong’s opposition-free legislature.
The State Department had told NBC News earlier this month that it was aware of reports that RFA might withdraw from the city and that “such a decision would represent the latest consequence of Hong Kong authorities’ continuing suppression of media freedom.”
On Friday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the U.S. was taking steps to impose new visa restrictions on multiple Hong Kong officials in connection with the intensifying crackdown on dissent.
High-profile trials of Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai, 76, and two former Stand News editors are expected to have profound implications for press freedom in the city.
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“Actions by Hong Kong authorities, including referring to RFA as a ‘foreign force,’ raise serious questions about our ability to operate in safety with the enactment of Article 23,” Bay Fang, president and chief executive of Radio Free Asia, said in a statement.
Well, of course, Radio Free Asia is part of the CIA’s propaganda network. It works in partnership with something called the Open Technology Fund (OTF) which was used to funnel money to rioters. That is now illegal, it wasn’t before.
With regards to freedom of the press, it says:
(b) human rights are to be respected and protected, the rights and freedoms, including the freedoms of speech, of the press and of publication, the freedom of association, of assembly, of procession and of demonstration, enjoyed under the Basic Law, the provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights as applied to the HKSAR, are to be protected in accordance with the law
There is nothing in it that is not in anyone else’s security law, you can read the whole thing here if you don’t believe me:
https://hongkongfp.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Hong-Kong-Article-23-draft-legislation.pdf
It is also worth noting that hongkongfp is fiercely anti-China yet they continue to operate in Hong Kong unmolested
