Hong Kong court convicts WSJ publisher of deterring reporter from union role

In a Hong Kong courtroom, the tension between institutional power and individual rights found a quiet but consequential resolution: Dow Jones Publishing, parent of the Wall Street Journal, was convicted of deterring reporter Selina Cheng from exercising her trade union rights after she became chair of the Hong Kong Journalist Association in 2024. The ruling does not restore her livelihood, but it names something — the subtle machinery by which a free press can be constrained not through censorship alone, but through the conditions placed on those who report. In a city that has fallen 67 places