Stand News

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Stand News
TypeOnline-only news
Owner(s)Best Pencil (Hong Kong) Ltd.
Founder(s) Chung Pui-kuen
Yu Ka-fai
Tony Tsoi Tung-ho
Editor-in-chiefPatrick Lam (final)
Predecessor House News
Founded30 December 2014 (2014-12-30)
Political alignment Pro-democracy
Language Traditional Chinese
Ceased publication29 December 2021 (2021-12-29)
Website thestandnews.com [ dead link ]

In 2021, a number of large, independent news publishers shut down in the wake of new national security laws. [18] Stand News and Apple Daily in June and the prosecution of staff there. As a result, Stand News wrote that "speech crimes" had arrived in Hong Kong, and removed commentary pieces from its website. It also stopped accepting monthly donations from readers so as to avoid wasting donors' funds in the event that Stand News was suppressed in a similar manner as Apple Daily. [19] [20] [21]

Stand News was targeted later that year. On 3 December 2021, Secretary for Security Chris Tang accused the outlet of bias, and of smearing Hong Kong's "smart prison" initiative. On the morning of 29 December, Stand News was raided by over 200 officers of the Hong Kong Police Force. Three men and three women were arrested and accused of conspiring to publish seditious material. Ronson Chan, a Stand News editor and chair of the Hong Kong Journalists Association, was also held for questioning by national security officers, and his home was raided; [20] [21] two former board members – former legislator Margaret Ng and pop icon Denise Ho were among those arrested. [22]

Later the same day, Stand News announced on social media that it would cease publication and dismiss its employees as the company's assets were frozen by the police. [3] [23] Its website was promptly replaced by a short farewell letter. The company's Facebook and Twitter pages were deleted, and all content on its YouTube account was removed. The Stand News's UK bureau announced it would also shut down, with bureau chief Yeung Tin-shui resigning. [24]

By the end of its life, their Facebook fans page had more than 1.7 million likes. [25]

Former editor-in-chief Chung Pui-kuen and former editor-in-chief Patrick Lam were found guilty of sedition on 29 August 2024. The judgement said that, of the 17 Stand News articles considered by the court, 11 were found to be seditious. This was the first sedition conviction of journalists in Hong Kong since the 1997 handover. [26]

Editors-in-Chief

  1. Chung Pui-kuen [27]
  2. Yu Ka-fai [27]
  3. Patrick Lam; interim [28]

Awards

See also

References

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Stand News
Traditional Chinese 立場新聞
Simplified Chinese 立场新闻
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
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Yue: Cantonese
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