Bao Choy

Choy Yuk-Ling , better known as Bao Choy, is a journalist and television producer in Hong Kong, best known for her work on and subsequent arrest for Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK)'s Hong Kong Connection. In the making of the investigative documentary titled 7.21 Who Owns the Truth? for Hong Kong Connection, Choy requested and obtained publicly available vehicle registration records to identify suspects involved in the Yuen Long mob attack during the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests. She was arrested in November 2020 for allegedly violating the Road Traffic Ordinance in Hong Kong for falsely declaring her intention to access the database and was found guilty and fined on two charges in April 2021. In June 2023 she won her appeal against the sentence, with the Court of Final Appeal annulling it.

Career Choy joined Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) in 2007 working on multiple TV programmes. In 2016, she joined the Hong Kong-based investigative news agency FactWire as a founding editorial member but returned to RTHK in 2018 as a freelance producer for Hong Kong Connection.

She was suspended from working at RTHK after her arrest in November 2020.

Arrest, sentencing and exoneration In the making of 7.21 Who Owns the Truth?, an episode of RTHK's Hong Kong Connection documentary programme, Choy examined the 21 July 2019 Yuen Long mob attack where suspected gang members attacked citizens indiscriminately. Using CCTV footage, Choy and colleagues identified a few vehicles parked near the suspected gang members and issued a request to use the publicly available vehicle registration database to identify the car owners. The episode aired in July 2020, with narration stating that according to the database, the vehicles suspected of having transported weapons for the mobs were linked to local village representatives. after it had been rejected in November 2022 by High Court judge Alex Lee. She was unanimously exonerated and had her sentence quashed by a panel of five judges on June 5, 2023. The panel said in a statement that there was no reason for "bona fide journalism" to be excluded from Choy's chosen option in the search application database.