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A political cartoonist apologized on Saturday after his latest newspaper work linked the Junior Police Call (JPC) to a recent row over the Hong Kong Journalists Association.
Security Secretary Chris Tang said earlier that the HKJA had “infiltrated” schools to recruit students to become members, but the association denied the request.
Police wrote to Justin Wong, assistant professor of visual arts at Baptist University, criticizing him for “making baseless accusations” and “smearing” the JPC. The force also asked him to clarify the matter.
The cartoon was posted to the Mingpao supplement page on Friday, in which two students discussed the possibility of participating in extracurricular activities.
One of them said he had become a student journalist.
“Have you been recruited to join the association … so that you can pretend to be a journalist and do whatever you want?” asked the other student.
“Where did you hear the fake news from?” the first student asked in response.
“I don’t know. Friends of JPC,” said the other student.
Wong admitted that it was inappropriate and unfair to involve the JPC in the argument and that he never intended to smear the group.
He added that he respects the contributions made by the JPC.
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