Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  They jailed the top chiefs, such as Jimmy Lai, or the editors of Stand News. That's the top one. Like me, I worked on the front line during 2019 about the physical attack [Inaudible—Editor]—

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Yes. I'm sorry about that.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I absolutely go with Mr. Chan's comment. Can you hear me okay?

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  The point is that I think censorship is the reason that so many journalists chose to leave their careers and Hong Kong. If there were a red line that we know, then we could at least know where the red line is and then maybe we'll self-censor ourselves, but the problem is that we

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Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you for inviting me. My name is Matthew Leung. I was a full-time news journalist in Hong Kong for six years. I left Hong Kong and moved to the U.K. this January due to safety concerns. I'm now a contract traffic warden working for city council. S

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Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I will continue. Arresting top executives of media outlets and seizing computers would obviously affect the work of journalists, but not as much as freezing assets, as people cannot work if they're not paid. After those two outlets were forcefully closed, the third outlet, Citi