A Hong Kong court convicted the publisher of the Wall Street Journal of deterring a reporter from taking up a trade union role, reports Danny Vincent of The Guardian.
Vincent reports, “The newspaper dismissed Selina Cheng just weeks after she was appointed chair of the Hong Kong Journalist Association (HKJA) in 2024. She was told at the time her termination was officially due to restructuring.
“Outside court on Thursday, Cheng said: ‘If reporters’ employment rights are not sufficiently safeguarded, or when their rights are violated and not enforced in law, then we can no longer work safely as reporters.’
“Principal magistrate David Cheung ruled that Dow Jones Publishing, the parent company of the Wall Street journal, was guilty of ‘preventing or deterring an employee from exercising trade union rights,’ but acquitted it of ‘dismissing or discriminating against an employee because she exercised those rights.'”
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