2023-06-07 04:04:34
[Yahoo News Report]On Sunday, June 4, Mak Yen-ting, the former chairman of the Hong Kong Journalists Association, went to Causeway Bay to interview as a foreign media reporter. The reason was not explained throughout. The Journalists Association issued a statement criticizing this move as a serious hindrance to the work of the media, and was “strongly condemned” by the Security Bureau and the police, claiming that the content of the statement was “distorting truth and wrong” and “seriously inaccurate”. The Journalists Association replied to the police yesterday (6th), emphasizing that the Association never believes that journalists have the right to avoid being stopped and searched. It also reiterated that Mak Yen-ting showed his press card that day, and asked the police what the “suspicious grounds” were for Mak.
In the letter, Chairman of the Journalists Association, Chen Langsheng recommended two articles from mainland China to the police. He quoted the academic article “Analysis of Observation Skills in News Interviews” written by Liu Chenhao, a first-level journal in Heilongjiang Province, in the first issue of 2014. It will be more conducive to obtaining important information in the interview if you get into the nature of the incident.” In addition, he also quoted the paper “A Preliminary Study on Observation and Interview” in the third issue of 1996 of “News”, a professional news journal in the mainland of Sichuan. It is to observe carefully with your eyes and collect materials.”
Mai Yanting questioned being taken away by the police without explanation: How can I destroy social peace?
Mai Yanting said in a radio interview on the morning of June 5 that he had been on the stairs of a shopping mall on East Point Road for more than ten minutes before being stopped by the police. Later, a police officer approached and stopped the investigation, “He said he suspected me, but he had no object, he just said he suspected me.” At that time, she tried to understand the reason for being suspected, and she also showed her press card, but the police kept asking her to go to the closed area subject to search. After she agreed to go to the cordoned off area, the police officer took her to a place other than the cordoned off area, but told her to get into a police car, “It turned out that he told me to get into a police car, but he didn’t explain it. I said I wouldn’t go, and getting into a police car is another matter.” , I’m not going to go.” She recalled that at that time, a police officer said that if she didn’t want to get in the car, they would carry her into the car.
She said that the police officers did not explain why they took her back to the police station, and she did not sign any documents when she left. It was later discovered that the charge was “suspected of disrupting the peace of society”, which made her angry. She said, “There was no one around me at the time. Some citizens sat on the stairs, and they might have trembled. How did I destroy the peace of society? You can’t come here, and no one cares about me.”
Police: Mai has no obvious interview behavior
Chen Langsheng: Most people don’t think that only those who hold photographic equipment or writing instruments are journalists
The Journalists Association issued a statement on the afternoon of June 5, stating that the police forcibly took away journalists who were interviewing on the day of June 4th, but did not explain why. On the evening of the same day, the Security Bureau stated that the Journalists Association “under the guise of freedom of speech, press and assembly” made “unreasonable remarks that confuse truth and slander” against the lawful law enforcement actions of the police, expressing strong opposition and condemnation. Afterwards, the police immediately issued an open letter, claiming that the Journalists Association’s statement was seriously inaccurate, expressing their dissatisfaction and strong condemnation, and requesting the Journalists Association to withdraw the relevant statement immediately. According to the police, Mai Yanting did not wear a press card when she was stopped, and she did not conduct any obvious interviews.
Regarding the police’s questioning of Mak Yen-ting’s lack of obvious interview behavior, Chen Langsheng said in a letter yesterday (6th) that Mak pointed out that she does not need to be at the forefront, so she was observing the police intercepting people by the side of the road. Waiting at the interception location is also a common journalistic work and an important skill. “General people don’t think that only those who pick up photographic equipment or writing tools are journalists.”
Text / Yahoo News Reporter
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