香港《立场新闻》“煽动”案宣判，两名编辑获刑

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香港《立场新闻》“煽动”案宣判，两名编辑获刑

TIFFANY MAY2024年9月27日已经停运的《立场新闻》前总编辑钟沛权（左）和时任总编辑林绍桐离开香港法院，摄于2023年。 Bertha Wang/EPA, via ShutterstockA judge in Hong Kong on Thursday handed down sentences to two editors in a landmark case that showed how a crackdown by China has curtailed press freedoms in the once-freewheeling city.周四，香港一名法官在一个具有里程碑意义的案件中对两名编辑进行了宣判，展示了中国的镇压如何削弱了这座曾经的自由之城的新闻自由。The two journalists, Chung Pui-kuen, and his successor, Patrick Lam, were convicted in August of conspiring to publish seditious materials on Stand News, a now defunct pro-democracy news site. Mr. Chung was sentenced to 21 months, and Mr. Lam, who has a serious health condition, to the time he had already served between his arrest and his release on bail — slightly less than a year.这两名编辑是钟沛权和他的继任林绍桐，他们已在今年8月被判有罪，罪名是在现已停运的民主派新闻网站《立场新闻》上串谋发布煽动性文章。钟沛权被判入狱21个月，林绍桐因患有严重疾病被判处不到一年的有期徒刑，等于从他被捕后到保释期间已被关押的时间。Stand News, like several other news outlets in Hong Kong, was once an example of the civil liberties the city offered that were unimaginable in the rest of China. It pursued investigations exposing the government’s failures and gave voice to the city’s beleaguered pro-democracy movement.与香港另外几家新闻媒体一样，立场新闻曾是香港拥有公民自由的一个例子，这些自由在中国其他地方是不可想象的。立场新闻开展调查，揭露政府的失职行为，为香港陷入困境的民主运动发声。After antigovernment protests roiled Hong Kong in 2019, Beijing crushed the opposition with a powerful national security law. But Stand News continued to publish pro-democracy voices in editorials and interviews.2019年，香港爆发了反政府抗议活动后，北京的中央政府用强大的国家安全法镇压了反对派。但立场新闻继续在社论和采访报道中发表支持民主的声音。The outlet closed after Mr. Chung and Mr. Lam were arrested in December 2021, when hundreds of police officers raided the newsroom and collected boxes of evidence.2021年12月，钟沛权和林绍桐被逮捕，数百名警察突袭了立场新闻编辑部，收集了一箱箱的证据后，立场新闻关闭。After their arrests, both journalists were detained for nearly a year before being released on bail. Their trial started in October 2022 and lasted nearly two months, with the verdict postponed three times.两名记者被捕后被拘留了近一年，后来获准保释。审理是从2022年10月开始的，持续了近两个月，推迟了三次才做出裁决。On Thursday, Mr. Lam, who has a rare kidney disorder that requires dialysis and frequent medical monitoring, was told he could walk free. Mr. Chung stood in the glass witness box, waiting to be taken back into custody. Former colleagues waved to him as they were ushered out of the courtroom. Mr. Chung smiled and waved back.周四，林绍桐被告知他获得释放，他患有一种罕见的肾脏疾病，需要做透析并和定期的医学观察。钟沛权站在玻璃挡板后面的证人席上，等待被带去服刑。前同事们在被引导出法庭时向他挥了手。钟沛权微笑着挥手回应。载有两名被告钟沛权和林绍桐的囚车驶往香港法院，摄于2022年。In a letter to the judge after his conviction, Mr. Chung wrote that he believed that many people in Hong Kong still supported free expression and an independent press.钟沛权在被定罪后给法官的一封信中写道，他相信香港许多人仍然支持言论自由和新闻独立。“Some of them care about the freedom and dignity of everyone in the community and are willing to pay the price of losing their own freedom,” he wrote. “It is the unshakable responsibility of journalists to report their stories and thoughts truthfully.”“他们中的一些人关心社会上每个人的自由和尊严，并愿意付出失去自身自由的代价，”他写道。“如实地报道他们的故事和想法是记者坚定不移的责任。”Rights activists and journalist groups say the prosecution of the Stand News editors made clear the decline of press freedom in the city and raised questions about what journalistic activities the authorities might consider illegal. The Hong Kong Journalists Association, which itself has become a target of government criticism, has said it opposed using sedition laws to “prosecute people exercising their constitutional right to conduct journalism.”维权人士和记者团体称，立场新闻编辑被起诉表明香港新闻自由的减少，也让人们对当局可能认为哪些新闻活动是非法提出了疑问。香港记者协会本身已成为政府批评的对象，该协会曾表示反对使用煽动法来“起诉行使宪法赋予的新闻权利的人”。In a statement in August, the Foreign Correspondents’ Club said that the Stand verdicts sent “shock waves through Hong Kong newsrooms, as well as international news organizations with bureaus in the city, as they seek to understand whether their day-to-day operations could be in violation of Hong Kong law.”香港外国记者会在今年8月发表的一份声明中表示，对立场新闻案的裁决“震惊了香港的新闻编辑部以及在香港设有分社的国际新闻机构，新闻从业者现在要搞明白他们的日常工作是否违反了香港法律”。The government has hit back at those raising concerns about press freedom. “Journalists, like everyone else, have an obligation to abide by all the laws,” a government statement said. “Their freedom of commenting on and criticizing government policies remains uninhibited as long as they do not violate the law.”香港政府已对这些有关新闻自由的担忧进行了反击。政府在一份声明中说：“新闻从业员与其他人一样都有义务遵守所有法律。只要不违法，传媒评论及批评政府施政的自由并无受到限制。”Nonetheless, officials have made clear the lines have been redrawn. Stand News’s closure was preceded by the shutdown of Apple Daily, a rambunctious, pro-democracy publication owned by the media mogul Jimmy Lai, who is himself on trial for national security charges. Several journalists and photographers have been denied work visas or barred from entering the city, including an Associated Press photographer who previously photographed Mr. Lai walking in a barbed wire enclosure. After a political cartoonist, Zunzi, satirized the police, government officials denounced him repeatedly until the newspaper where he had worked for four decades suspended his cartoon column.尽管如此，官员们已明确表示，界限已经重新划定。在立场新闻关闭之前，《苹果日报》已经停刊，后者是一份充满活力的民主出版物，由媒体大亨黎智英拥有，黎智英本人已受到违法国家安全法的指控，面临审判。香港当局拒绝发给多名外国记者和摄影师工作签证，或禁止他们进入香港，包括一名美联社摄影师，他曾拍过一张黎智英走在铁丝网围栏里的照片。政治漫画家尊子讽刺了警察后，政府官员多次谴责他，直到他为之工作了四十年的报纸停掉了他的漫画专栏。被关在香港赤柱监狱的出版商和著名民主活动人士黎智英（中），摄于去年。Many local news outlets have stopped reporting on efforts by Hong Kong activists, now in exile, who draw attention to China’s crackdown on the city. Other news sites have taken to placing disclaimers at the bottom at editorials saying that opinions of editorial writers did not reflect those of the outlet, and that there was no intention to violate the national security law.许多当地新闻媒体已停止报道香港活动人士的努力，现已流亡海外的活动人士呼吁外界关注中国对香港的镇压。其他新闻网站已采取在社评文章底部刊登免责声明，称社评文章作者的观点不代表出版物的观点，出版物无意违反国家安全法。Beyond facing legal risks, dozens of journalists, their families and neighbors have been targets of what appeared to be a systematic harassment campaign, including death threats, ransom letters and online trolling, the Hong Kong Journalists Association said this month.香港记者协会本月表示，除了面临法律风险外，数十名记者、他们的家人和邻居也成了似乎是系统性骚扰活动的目标，包括死亡威胁、勒索信和网暴。The Hong Kong authorities have also engaged in a broader crackdown on dissent. According to a database maintained by researchers at the Georgetown Center for Asian Law, nearly 300 people have been arrested on national security or sedition offenses, with over 70 convicted.香港当局也对异见人士进行更广泛的打压。根据乔治城亚洲法律中心研究人员维护的数据库，已有近300人因违法国家安全或煽动叛乱的指控被捕，其中的70多人已被定罪。More than 30 opposition lawmakers and prominent activists await sentencing in a mass trial. In a separate case, Mr. Lai, the media tycoon accused of conspiracy and collusion with foreign forces, faces what many experts expect will be a lengthy prison sentence.30多名反对派议员和知名活动人士正在等待集体审判的宣判。在另一起案件中，许多专家预计，被指控与外国势力勾结的传媒大亨黎智英将面临长期监禁。Before announcing the sentences on Thursday, Judge Kwok Wai-kin said that imprisonment was the “only appropriate punishment” for publishing articles he described as seditious. Stand News was not solely a news outlet without a political stance, he said, but rather it was a participant in a movement at a time when many lacked trust in government.周四在宣布刑罚之前，法官郭伟健表示，监禁是对发表被他判定为煽动性文章的“唯一适当惩罚”。他说，立场新闻并不仅仅是一个没有政治立场的新闻机构，而是在许多人对政府缺乏信任的时候发生的一场运动的参与者。Some editorials failed to provide context and balanced analysis, he said, and a star reporter later ran for office as an opposition candidate. The cumulative effect, he said, was “serious, unquantifiable harm to the public.”立场新闻的一些社论未能提供背景和平衡的分析，郭伟健说，一位明星记者后来以反对派候选人的身份参加竞选。他说，这些加起来的效应“对公众造成了严重的、无法量化的伤害”。Tiffany May是时报驻香港记者，报道香港和更广泛地区的政治、商业和文化议题。 点击查看更多关于她的信息。翻译：纽约时报中文网点击查看本文英文版。  https://feedx.run

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