The head of Hong Kong’s journalist union was arrested on Wednesday, a police source said, just weeks before he was set to leave the city and begin an overseas fellowship.
Ronson Chan, president of the Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA), was arrested for allegedly obstructing a police officer and disorder in a public place, a police source told AFP.
Channel C, the online news outlet Chan works for, said the veteran reporter was taken away by police officers who asked to check his identity while he was reporting on a meeting of public housing flat owners.
Chan was set to leave Hong Kong at the end of September for the six-month Reuters Institute fellowship programme at Oxford University.
