The head of Hong Kong’s journalist union was arrested on Wednesday, just weeks before he was set to leave the city and begin an overseas fellowship.
Ronson Chan, chairman of the Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA), was arrested for allegedly obstructing a police officer and disorderly conduct in a public place.
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.
Police said a 41-year-old man with the surname Chan was arrested after he refused to show officers his ID card and behaved in an “uncooperative” way despite multiple warnings.
Chan was set to leave Hong Kong at the end of September for the six-month Reuters Institute fellowship program at Oxford University.
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