Overseas groups step up support for Hong Kong’s Selina Cheng over Wall Street Journal sacking
- Asia Chapter of the Asian American Journalists Association latest to support reporter who says newspaper fired her over press freedom role
![Selina Cheng was voted chairwoman of Hong Kong’s largest press union on June 22. Photo: Sam Tsang](https://cdn.i-scmp.com/sites/default/files/styles/1020x680/public/d8/images/canvas/2024/07/19/1efd849a-cd4d-4e1d-90f8-9deb3175bbdd_3b011b11.jpg?itok=q6KZvSvK&v=1721365070)
“Journalists must be able join and lead press organisations that are committed to defending media freedom without facing intimidation or retaliation,” the group said in a statement shared on social media on Friday.
Other press groups that have expressed support for Cheng include the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China, Reporters Without Borders, the US-based Society of Professional Journalists, the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines, Canada-based Media Action Plan and Women Press Freedom.
In a social media post on Thursday, the US Congressional-Executive Commission on China said it was “tracking concerns” about Cheng’s firing “and the disturbing questions about whether [the Journal] is abetting the erosion of press freedoms” in the city.
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