Hong Kong leader places national security law onus on journalists; says media must not subvert gov't

Hong Kongࢀ™s Chief Executive Carrie Lam says journalists should ࢀœbe in a positionࢀ to decide for themselves if they are breaking the law in the course of their work as press freedom fears intensified in the city amid the impending closure of its only pro-democracy print newspaper, Apple Daily. In response to a question in which she was asked to define ࢀœnormal journalistic work,ࢀ Lam said ࢀœjournalists should be in a position to judge whether one is breaching the law.ࢀ ࢀœI can only say what is breaching the law based on the advice from my enforcement authorities as well as…