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Ronson Chan is the current Chair of the Hong Kong Journalists Association. He previously worked for Stand News, an online Hong Kong news agency with over a million subscribers, and for Factwire, the first investigative reporting agency in the territory. Both organisations were closed following the enactment of Hong Kong’s National Security Law in June 2022. Chan was arrested on 7 September 2022 while covering a meeting at a Hong Kong housing estate. Police alleged that he refused to provide identification and behaved in an ‘uncooperative’ way. He was charged with obstructing police and is currently on bail. He was, however, allowed to leave Hong Kong to take up a six-month fellowship with the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism in Oxford. In January, he spoke to Asian Affairs’ editor, Bill Hayton.
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