Hong Kong police arrested the top editor of Jimmy Lai’s Apple Daily newspaper in the most targeted action yet involving a media organization's journalistic operations
HONG KONG—National security police in Hong Kong arrested the top editor of a popular pro-democracy newspaper and searched the company’s newsroom, in the most targeted action involving a media organization’s journalistic operations yet in a yearlong crackdown on dissent.
Steve Li, a senior police superintendent, told reporters that the publication has conspired with others to request foreign countries, organizations and individuals to impose sanctions against Hong Kong and China. More than 30 Apple Daily articles were involved, and authorities froze the equivalent of $2.3 million from three related companies: Apple Daily Ltd., Apple Daily Printing Ltd. and AD Internet Ltd.
Press freedoms and other civil liberties in Hong Kong have steadily eroded under the national security law, freedom advocates and media observers say, as Beijing has made clear it won’t tolerate dissent and challenges to its power in the city.
Others arrested on Thursday, according to a report by Apple Daily, included Cheung Kim-hung and Royston Chow—respectively the chief executive and chief operating officer of Next Digital, which publishes the newspaper—as well as associate publisher Chan Pui-man and a news director named Cheung Chi-wai. Their homes were also searched.
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