Four Apple Daily staff due in Hong Kong court on national security charges

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Four staff members from the now-closed pro-democracy Apple Daily newspaper are set to appear in a Hong Kong court on Thursday to face charges of colluding with foreign forces under a national security law that has intensified fears over media freedoms.

The police force’s national security department said it was charging four people, whom it did not identify, “for the offense of conspiracy to collude with a foreign country or with external elements to endanger national security.”

The popular tabloid of staunch Beijing critic Lai printed its last edition on June 24 after the police raid and several staff arrests.

 

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