Hong Kong arrests top Apple Daily staff using security law

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Hong Kong’s police arrested five executives of the Apple Daily newspaper for suspected breaches of the national security law.

Those arrested included Apple Daily Editor-in-Chief Ryan Law and Next Digital Ltd. Chief Executive Officer Cheung Kim-hung, as more than 100 police officers descended on the newspaper’s Hong Kong headquarters.

The move is the latest effort by Hong Kong and Chinese authorities to quell any form of dissent in the city, which was rocked by sometimes violent anti-China protests in 2019. "This is a serious blow to press freedom in Hong Kong, and a direct attack on the journalistic work of Apple Daily, ” he continued.

His sentencing was condemned by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who called the charges"politically motivated” and said that Hong Kong and China were violating freedoms guaranteed under the city’s Basic Law and the Sino-British Joint Declaration in their attempt to quash dissent. On Thursday morning, Apple Daily reporters live-streamed the police operation taking place at their headquarters in the same way they has previously broadcast the sweep of their office in August. Police asked the newspaper’s journalists to leave the newsroom, the paper reported.

 

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