In early morning raids, hundreds of National Security police arrested six people linked to online media company Stand News, in a further blow to press freedoms in the city.
The move comes as Hong Kong authorities continue their crackdown on pro-democracy elements in the city, which reached their zenith during the large-scale protests of 2019, before being brutally suppressed by police., a pro-democracy not-for-profit media company, comes on the heels of authorities arresting key figures atwas forced to close earlier this year and its founder Jimmy Lai imprisoned.
The arrests will be a further blow to press freedoms in Hong Kong and will lead to more questions about the viability of independent media companies operating in the territory and put further pressure on foreign media organizations to accelerate existing moves to shift regional headquarters to neighboring Asian countries.
Establishing herself as a recording artist in 2002, Ho is a household name in the Cantonese-speaking world for her music as much as her activism. In 2012, she came out as gay, becoming one of the highest-profile advocates of gay rights in Asia. Her political activism stepped up during the 2014 Umbrella protests in Hong Kong and she was seen as one of the leading figures of the 2019 pro-democracy movement. In September 2019, Ho and other Hong Kong activists gave evidence at the U.S.
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