The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has criticised China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) for not granting accreditation to several Hong Kong journalists and media outlets. In a statement issued on October 13, 2017, it urged the NPC to “ensure fair and transparent accreditation for journalists for the upcoming 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of the Republic of China.” It observed that journalists from Ming Pao, Cable Television and the South China Morning Post had not till then been granted accreditation and that Apple Daily and HK01 had yet to acquire any press accreditation at all.