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Reporters Against Power, Ep. 5 - Hong Kong
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Fidan Ekiz travels to Hong Kong, where the free press is slowly being silenced by communist China.
According to Shirley Yam of the Hong Kong Journalist Association it is like boiling a frog: “If you boil the water slowly the frogs doesn’t notice, until it’s fully cooked and ready to be eaten”. Hong Kong is formally part of the Peoples Republic of China, but when the British handed over the islands to China in 1997 it was negotiated that the former Crown Colony would keep its democracy and legislation for 50 years to come.
When in 2014 China interfered in the election process, the Hong Kong inhabitants revolted in the Umbrella Revolution which lasted for three months. But they achieved nothing. Press freedom in Hong Kong is diminishing ever since. Cyber attacks are organized against online news outlets. Newspapers are bought by investment tycoons from mainland China. Critical reporters are fired. Some are beaten up in the streets. Some vanish mysteriously. The result is a climate of fear amongst Hong Kongers and journalists. Fortunately, Fidan also meets reporters that won’t be scared off or intimidated, like the female radio host Li Wei Ling.
Series Description:
A daughter of Turkish immigrants in The Netherlands, Fidan Ekiz visits the courageous people that practice journalism under dictatorship or oppression and becomes a part of their adventurous daily life. After being a news correspondent in Turkey for some years, Fidan returns to The Netherlands and starts making documentaries. At age of 38 she tries to redefine the importance of journalism.
Citation
Main credits
Schaap, Kees (film director)
Oostrom, Anja van (film producer)
Other credits
Cinematography, Jan Pieter Tuinstra; editing, Floor Rodenberg.
Distributor subjects
Journalism and The PressKeywords
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(twinkling music)
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(somber orchestral music)
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(singing in foreign language)
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(soft somber music)
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(singing in foreign language)
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(ominous music)
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(crowd chattering)
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(crowd chanting in
foreign language)
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(ominous music)
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Can I ask you something?
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Are you afraid that you
may lose your freedom
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because of Beijing's
influence on Hong Kong?
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- [Fidan] Are you afraid
to lose your freedom?
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- Little bit.
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Little bit, I'd say.
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We feel some different.
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- I was wondering if I
could ask the same question
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to your father.
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- That's okay.
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He's not from Hong Kong.
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- [Fidan] China?
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- Yeah, from China.
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- [Fidan] Ah, okay.
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- I don't wanna stay here.
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- You don't wanna stay here?
- Yeah, we won't stay here.
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- I may not wanna stay here.
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- If it's more like
China, and yeah.
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- I just wanna move
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to somewhere else.
(man laughs)
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- [Fidan] Where would
you want to move to?
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- America.
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(light orchestral music)
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How did it start?
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How does it start?
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I mean, is it a phone
call an editor gets?
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Don't touch these topics.
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Is it a threat a
journalist gets?
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- Most of the Hong Kong
media are owned by tycoons
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who have lots of business
in mainland China.
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Imagine maybe when you were
meeting senior state leaders
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over a casual chat and
you got mentions that,
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oh, we do see an increasing need
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for Hong Kong media
to be supportive
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of our policy,
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and then you got
a signal that, oh,
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what your paper or
your television,
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your radio are doing so
far, it's not sufficient.
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It's not that they're
going to draw up a list
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on what should not be
reported, but it's a signal
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that, oh, let's be more
supportive to the government.
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- But can you tell me
something about the change?
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Can you tell me about
the self-censorship?
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- You're fearing
the fear itself,
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so that is good enough,
I mean, for most people.
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It's recent in a
sense that since 2012,
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when Beijing has spelled out
a tighter policy on Hong Kong,
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that get worse, but it's
not from zero to 100.
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See, the analogy
we love to use is
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about how you boil a frog.
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You do not turn the
full heat to boil a frog
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because it will jump.
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- Yeah.
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- So you have to
gently increase the,
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turn on the heat.
- The heat.
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- That the frog won't jump.
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And in the end it
was cook, boiled,
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fully ready to be eat.
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(somber orchestral music)
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(eggs smashing)
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Were you frustrated
in your project
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while making this film?
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Did anyone sabotage the filming?
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- You think you could
make the same movie
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10 years from now?
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(eerie music)
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(somber music)
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(speaking in foreign language)
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- This last film we
saw about independence,
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this is about you, right?
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- I'm a part of it.
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- [Fidan] How are
you a part of it?
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- Because this is a
whole movement to fight
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for our real autonomy, and
to achieve the real autonomy
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of Hong Kong, independence
is the only way out
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because we all know
that the authority
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behind Hong Kong government
is the Communist Party,
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and this is an
authoritarian regime.
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They would not
release their power.
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(speaking in foreign language)
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- Do you believe
that the only way
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to establish
independence and freedom
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is if you're prepared
to die for that?
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- Yes.
- Yeah?
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- I mean, for many of us,
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although right now, right here,
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sacrificing our lives
may be too dramatic,
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but on the frontline of
all those confrontation
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people are not really
afraid of dying.
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- Are you willing to
die for your case?
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- Yes.
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Yes, even though--
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(crowd shouting in
foreign language)
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(crowd chattering
in foreign language)
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(speaking in foreign language)
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(soft orchestral music)
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Why did you leave South
China Morning Post?
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- Well, I felt the
paper was changing,
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and it seems that the paper
had become slightly different
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from what it was
when I worked there.
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- Or it changed while
you working there.
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- Yes, yes.
- Can you explain
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me how it changed?
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- Well, it seems that the paper
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was getting more concerned
about stories that say
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my offend China, might
be politically sensitive.
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- What do you think will happen
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since Alibaba bought
South China Morning Post?
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- More China oriented.
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Hong Kong SCMP used to be a
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Hong Kong base newspapers.
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Of course, it covers China,
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it covers the region,
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it covers the world,
but very importantly,
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from a Hong Kong perspective.
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The biggest change
perhaps is that
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it might take a mainland
China perspective.
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(somber music)
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- Hi.
- Hi.
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- Hello.
- Nice to meet you.
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- Nice to meet you.
- I'm John.
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- Fidan Ekiz.
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Shall we go?
- Why don't we, yeah.
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- Do you think it's possible
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that SCMP will be
more pro-Beijing,
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pro-mainland in the future?
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- What's wrong with
wanting China to succeed?
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This is very different
from being a fan
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of the Communist Party
and a shoe shiner
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of the Communist Party.
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That's one thing.
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The other is being a
patriotic Chinese person
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or wanting your
country to succeed.
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There's nothing wrong with that.
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How does that make
you a bad person?
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- Well, let me put
in another way, then.
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Do you think that
SCMP can be critical
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about mainland China?
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- We're critical of
mainland China every day.
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Do you read our paper?
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Literally, read our
paper every day.
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Every day, we have a
story about corruption,
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something, or the other.
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We have very
opinionated columnists
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who attack China all the time,
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so I'm not quite sure where
the censorship is coming from,
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because every day in our
newspaper you see, you know,
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we write stories--
- But can that change
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in 10 years from now?
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- All this talk,
I've heard before.
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It's all the same to me.
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I've heard all this talk about,
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oh, press freedom's
gonna go down the drain.
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It's gonna be the end
after the British left.
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It's 20 years.
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Hong Kong's doing
pretty damn well, right?
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So now, you're asking me,
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and now we have an
ownership change,
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and now you're asking
me the same question.
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This question I keep hearing
every five, six years or so.
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Oh, but it's going
to end now, isn't it?
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It's not.
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It's going on.
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- [Fidan] It irritates you.
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- Yes, it does.
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(crowd chattering)
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- Over there, over
there they have
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some sweepers?
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- Welcome, everybody, to the
International Pillow Fight Day!
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(crowd cheering)
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Show me your pillows!
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(crowd cheering)
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10!
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- [Everyone] Nine, eight, seven,
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six,
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five,
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four,
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three,
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two,
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one!
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(crowd chattering)
(crowd laughing)
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(eerie music)
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- [Fidan] Tom.
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- Hi.
- Hi. (chuckles)
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- [Tom] Hi, how you doing?
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- I'm fine.
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Are you gonna join them?
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- Yeah, you?
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Come on.
- Yeah. (laughs)
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(crowd chattering)
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Can you tell me the risks
a journalist can endure
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when they write about
sensitive topics?
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- Well, it is quite
free in Hong Kong,
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but they can often
risk their jobs.
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There's been columnists
at various newspapers
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who don't get their
contracts renewed.
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It's never particularly
overt that you're sacked
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for a political opinion, but
there's certainly a trend.
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At Hong Kong Free Press, I
like to think we're isolated
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from many of these
sort of risks.
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We're structured as a nonprofit.
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We don't have shareholders.
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But saying that, we've
had our issues as well.
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Just before we launched,
there was a small cyberattack.
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We've got a cyber squatter.
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We've also found that
because of the government's
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quite archaic attitudes
to online media,
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we haven't got access to
government press conferences.
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So yeah, once a week,
we will work from home.
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This is the lovely letter
we got from the government
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saying that we
cannot have access
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to the government
information system
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- Oh.
- and to press conferences.
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- Dear Mr. Grundy, thank you
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for your letter
dated January 22nd.
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- We're not in a
position to distinguish
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among the wide range
of online media
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nor is it possible to
grant access to all those
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who claim themselves
to be online media.
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So I can understand the
debate about bloggers,
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about if you have large
Twitter followers.
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Are you online media?
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But we're in no such gray zone
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because we are
qualified journalists
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at a registered company.
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We've got an office.
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We're Hong Kong Journalist
Association members,
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so there shouldn't
be any excuse.
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We have all the
trappings bar printing
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on dead trees,
which is ridiculous.
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It's not how people
consume news now,
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certainly in Hong Kong.
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(soft somber music)
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- The whole year we have
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maybe five or six
times cyberattack.
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The attack is huge.
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They use many computer
all around China
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or even other country,
get into our website
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so that we can't do anything.
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Our website will get down.
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They organize the crowd.
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At one night, there is
three to 400 people come
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enveloping our road, blocking
our road so that our--
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- The front of
your building here?
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- Yeah, yeah.
- Your newspaper, yeah.
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- So that our vehicle
can't go outside
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so that our newspaper
can't go outside.
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- How can you continue your
job like this when things...
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- I think I'm lucky.
- Is that what you say?
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- I'm lucky because our
boss letting us to do so.
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Other journalists in
other news organization,
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even they want to do this,
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but the editor won't
let you do this.
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- [Fidan] Well, do think
your boss would ever give in
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to intimidations and pressure?
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- I worry sometime
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because we are human being.
- Really?
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- We are all human being.
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The pressure is
really, really high.
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(soft ambient music)
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(stringed instrument music)
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- [Reporter] Chief Executive
CY Leung continues.
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I'm looking for Li Wei-ling.
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Do you know where she is?
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- This is her.
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- [Fidan] Is that her?
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- Yeah.
- Oh, okay.
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Thank you.
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Li, hi.
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- Hi.
- I am Fridan.
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- Nice to meet you.
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- [Fridan] Hello,
nice to meet you, too.
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- Wei-ling.
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You can call me Wei-ling.
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- Oh, this is your office?
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You like a Bond girl or
something, very beautiful.
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- Thank you very much.
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- But this is a
dress or a jacket?
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- A jacket.
- It's a jacket, okay.
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When is your show?
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It's in what, two hours?
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- [Wei-ling] 5:00 to 8:00.
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- Okay, so you're busy.
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- [Wei-ling] Yes.
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(pensive music)
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- [Reporter] Leung ignored
reporters as they asked him
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whether he really hated
the talk show host so much.
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- Leung has denied
any involvement,
00:25:07.200 --> 00:25:08.200
insisting he respects
media freedom,
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but many are not convinced,
and they're demanding answers.
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- Sit there, yes?
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Okay.
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You're throwing me out.
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Do you want this now,
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or shall I--
- No, no.
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It's for you.
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- Okay, thank you.
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(dramatic music)
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(ethereal music)
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(reporters shouting
in foreign language)
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(suspenseful music)
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- [Crowd] Free Lee Bo.
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- Fight for freedom of press.
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- [Crowd] Fight for
freedom of press.
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(speaking in foreign language)
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- I have food.
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Shall we?
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- Yeah.
- Yes?
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(speaking in foreign language)
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- Ah, okay.
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I think one is with rice.
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This is the pork thing.
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You like pork?
(speaking in foreign language)
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- Yes.
- Yes, okay,
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you take the pork.
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- [Wei-ling] Oh, yeah?
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- I'll take this one.
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I was expecting someone less
stylish and less modern maybe.
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Why did you choose, you
had a total different look
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in the press conference.
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Was that on purpose?
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- Ah, okay.
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- What happened there?
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- [Fidan] Were you
expecting to be fired?
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- It all happened in one day?
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(speaking in foreign language)
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Wow.
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Did you ever find any proof,
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do you have any proof that who
was behind you being fired?
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Who gave the order?
00:29:46.280 --> 00:29:47.640
Who wanted you to be
fired at Commercial Radio?
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Do you have any
proof who that was?
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- [Fidan] To you directly?
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(speaking in foreign language)
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I would expect my
colleagues to, I don't know,
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stand up and be angry about it
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and support me.
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I would expect some actions,
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I think.
(Wei-ling grunts)
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Maybe it's not realistic,
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but I would be sad if
nobody would say anything
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and I could just pack
my stuff and, not even.
00:31:18.999 --> 00:31:19.999
- Okay, okay.
- You couldn't even
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get your stuff and just leave.
00:31:48.960 --> 00:31:49.600
- Some disappointed you?
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You find it difficult,
what happened.
00:31:59.240 --> 00:31:59.920
- [Fidan] Yeah.
00:32:02.240 --> 00:32:02.999
(soft ambient music)
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Hello?
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Hi.
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I'm looking for a radio host.
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The Bull?
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Do you know him?
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No?
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- No, (mumbles).
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(somber music)
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(speaking in foreign language)
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- [Fidan] The Bull,
do you know The Bull?
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(speaking in foreign language)
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The Bull, radio host.
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(speaking in foreign language)
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Is it, he?
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Oh. (laughs)
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Well he looks like Mr. Miyagi.
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Hello.
- Hello.
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- [Fridan] Hi, I'm Fridan.
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- Yeah.
- Oh.
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- Nice to meet you.
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- Well thank you.
- Okay.
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- [Fridan] How are you?
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- Eat lunch.
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- [Fridan] You're having lunch?
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- Yeah.
- Okay.
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(bright music)
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It's Christmas. (laughs)
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You're celebrating
Christmas still.
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- [The Bull] Hello.
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(speaking in foreign language)
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(speaking in foreign language)
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- They didn't give
you a license.
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- No.
- All these years.
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- Did you get warnings
from the government?
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- Yeah.
00:36:00.560 --> 00:36:01.000
- [Fidan] Okay.
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(somber music)
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(crowd chattering)
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(speaking in foreign language)
00:37:32.520 --> 00:37:33.280
- [Photographer] Keep it going!
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(speaking in foreign language)
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(speaking in foreign language)
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(crowd applauds)
00:38:04.320 --> 00:38:04.960
(crowd cheers)
00:38:11.040 --> 00:38:11.999
(speaking in foreign language)
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(eggs smashing)
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(speaking in foreign language)
00:39:18.280 --> 00:39:18.999
(ominous ambient music)
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(speaking in foreign language)
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(speaking in foreign language)
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(speaking in foreign language)
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- But if you would say something
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to journalists who are afraid,
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who are not as brave as you are
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because I really think
you are an exception.
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What would you advise them?
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What would you say to them?
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(suspenseful music)
Distributor: First Hand Films
Length: 42 minutes
Date: 2016
Genre: Expository
Language: Turkish; English; Spanish; Burmese; Russian; Dutch / English subtitles
Grade: College, Adults
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Closed Captioning: Available
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