Hong Kong Foreign Journalists Club Suspends Human Rights Awards
- FCC wary of crossing ‘red lines’ under national security law
- Annual award recognizes outstanding human rights reporting
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Hong Kong’s storied Foreign Correspondents Club announced Monday that it would “suspend” its annual Human Rights Press Awards this year because of concerns about possibly violating the national security law imposed on the city by China in 2020.
Club President Keith Richburg said in a statement that the club’s board had decided to suspend the awards, which were due to be announced on May 3, so as not to cross any “red lines” under the law, which covers acts of secession, subversion of state power, terrorism and “collusion with foreign and external forces to endanger national security.”