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May 24 • 6 tweets • 2 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
“The axing of a satirical political cartoon by a major #HongKong newspaper was due to “political pressure” from government officials, cartoonist Zunzi told RFA.”

rfa.org/english/news/c…
Cartoonist Huang Jijun, 68, who had cartoons in every edition of the now-shuttered pro-democracy Apple Daily newspaper for 26 years, said that the canceling of his column reflects the overall political climate in Hong Kong.
"Of course it was due to political pressure," he said. "It wasn't that my fee was so low that I couldn't keep doing the cartoons."
"It's clearly linked to the political situation: they wanted [the Ming Pao] to stop publishing my column," Huang told Radio Free Asia, after earlier declining to comment on the reasons for the move.
"The government sent a warning message to the newspaper, allowing them to deal with it flexibly," he said. "In times of tight [political] controls, when the accusations are flying around ... everything is under the microscope … anyone can be accused of a crime."
"They think these books will have a negative impact on society," he said. "They don't want the public to be influenced by them, otherwise they wouldn't be doing this. Every move they make is with one eye on its public impact."

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