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Hong Kong: No Blogger Accreditation

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008 @ 10:12 UTC

by Oiwan Lam

Countries:: Hong Kong (China)
Topics:: Freedom of Speech, Media
Languages:: English

Thomas Crampton talked to the Hong Kong government’s Director of Information Services Betty Fung, who said Hong Kong does not recognize bloggers for accreditation to official media events and she has never received a request for accreditation from a blogger.

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