As Hong Kong’s free media is attacked, as social media channels are censored, as activists are arrested, we must revendicate our right to know what is going. If we want to counter not only the narrative but come up with adequate and timely countermeasures as well, we must start by halting the chinesization of our democracies and reinforce our resilience to authoritarian models by unequivocally refuting the secrecy surrounding agreements being signed with the CCP and its subsidiaries.
Read Laura Harth’s column on “Apple Daily” on the need for the human right to know, a campaign by the Nonviolent Radical Party, Transnational Transparty, currently under review at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.