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Tens of thousands of protesters attend an annual pro-democracy march in Hong Kong amid bookseller's safety fears on July 1, 2016. Protesters hold photos of Lam Wing Kee, one of five booksellers who went missing last year after publishing books critical of China's leaders. The case of the booksellers have raised international concerns that Hong Kong's judicial independence and freedom of speech were being eroded. Photo: P.H. Yang

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Hong Kong sees lower freedom score amid Beijing intervention

by Asia Times staff February 2, 2017February 18, 2020

Hong Kong saw a decline in its score on freedoms in 2017 from last year amid Beijing’s intervention, according to the latest report published by Freedom House, a United States-based non-government organization. The former British colony’s aggregate score on freedoms fell to 61 out of 100 this year, two points down from a year ago, […]