Choy was fined in 2021 for “making a false statement” when accessing car ownership records on a public registry. Read more at straitstimes.com.
during her investigation into the attack, carried out by a gang of men armed with clubs and sticks.
Choy chose the last one, which the original trial court and a lower appeal court said did not cover her journalistic purpose. “One might read ‘other traffic and transport-related matters’... in a broader way to include the serious investigative journalism undertaken here by the appellant,” the judges said in their ruling.
Choy’s searches were made for a documentary she produced in 2020 for Hong Kong’s public broadcaster RTHK.It investigated the police’s failure to respond quickly enough to the July 2019 attack, a watershed moment in the huge and often violent pro-democracy protests that year, which dealt a blow to public trust in the force.
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