United States Agency for Global Media

RFA providing coverage of Hong Kong protests

September 25, 2014

RFA providing coverage of Hong Kong protests
students stand at a fence with signs
On September 19, Hong Kong secondary school students in Tseung Kwan O town marched to support the class boycott that will take place on September 26. They claimed that their schools prohibited them to hand out flyers to promote the boycott. (photo from Hong Kong City-Wide School Strike Campaign)

Radio Free Asia’s Cantonese and Mandarin services have been closely covering the pro-democracy demonstrations in Hong Kong and providing accurate and unbiased news about the developments to audiences in mainland China. The thousands of students and concerned Hong Kong citizens are expressing discontent with Beijing over its decision to vet candidates for Hong Kong’s public executive leadership. The demonstrations come amid tighter restrictions on press freedoms in the former British territory, which was handed over to China under a one-country, two-systems agreement in 1997.

A sea of people fill a large boulevard
Approximately 13,000 university students gathered on Chinese University campus in Hong Kong for the first day of class boycott. (photo by Lin Ching)