Thursday, 22 Apr 2021 04:47 PM MYT
Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) producer Bao Choy Yuk-ling (centre) arrives at the West Kowloon Courts building in Hong Kong on April 22, 2021. — AFP pic
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HONG KONG, April 22— An award-winning Hong Kong journalist was found guilty today of improperly searching a public vehicle licence database to help track down the perpetrators of an attack on democracy supporters by government loyalists.
The conviction of Bao Choy, a producer with public broadcaster RTHK, comes at a time of deepening concerns over press freedoms in the international business hub as Beijing stamps out dissent in the wake of huge democracy protests.