Past Events | May 8th, 2008 |

ITAG 2 workshop:

Freedom and Human Right under the Obscene and Indecent Articles Ordinance

While the Hong Kong celebrities’ internet nude picture scandal has lost its power as media hype and gossip’s topic, its aftermath, however, is preparing to penetrate into the ordinary life of every Hong Kong people in an unnoticed manner. Does the current censorship mechanism towards obscene and indecent material impotent towards the complex reality? Are voices calling for reforming the Obscene and Indecent Ordinance a conservative backlash aiming to restrict the freedom of Hong Kong people?
ITAG2 of the Professional Commons has invited two Obscene Articles Tribunal adjudicators to be our speaks to share their experience as adjudicators and the mechanism they observe in making the classification.

Speakers:
Mr. To Yiu Ming
Assistant Professor, Department of Journalism, Baptist University; previously worked as an OAT adjudicator

Ms Amy Yuen
Member of the Association for the Advancement of Feminism; currently working as an OAT adjudicator

Discussants:
Mr. Kevin Yam
Member of the Professional Commons; representative from the legal sector

Mr. Francis Fong
Convener of ITAG2, representative from the IT sector