HONG KONG—Hong Kong’s national security police arrested a veteran journalist and former contributing writer with the now-shuttered liberal media outlet Stand News, on Monday for alleged sedition, police and local media said. A crackdown on the media based on a sedition law that dates from the British colonial-era, as all as a Beijing-imposed national security…
Jimmy Lai, Beijing’s Fearless Foe and a Prisoner of Conscience With God on His Side
April 8, 2022
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Index on Censorship, a global magazine campaigning for freedom of expression, recently released six letters written by Jimmy Lai in prison. Lai is the founder of the now-defunct Apple Daily, an outspoken Hong Kong newspaper critical of Beijing. He was arrested on Aug. 10, 2020, after being accused of “collusion with foreign forces” following the…
Beijing Is Shutting Down Hong Kong’s Last Free Media
News Analysis The Fragrant Harbor’s last truly free media are falling one after another under the pressure of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Hong Kong police raided Stand News on Dec. 29. The leveling of the outlet, and the “voluntary” closure of Citizen News on Jan. 3, are two more nails in the coffin of…
Blinken Calls on China to Release 7 Arrested in Hong Kong Police’s Media Raid
December 30, 2021
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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is calling on Beijing and the Hong Kong government to immediately release media staff members arrested in Hong Kong on Dec. 29, following a police raid of their newsroom on the same day. “We call on PRC [People’s Republic of China] and Hong Kong authorities to cease targeting Hong…
US Officials, Rights Groups Rebuke Hong Kong’s Silencing of Another Independent Media
December 29, 2021
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The shuttering of yet another independent media in Hong Kong is raising alarm among world officials and rights groups, who urged the international community to help safeguard what little freedom is left in the once vibrant city. Over 200 national security officers on Dec. 28 raided the offices of prominent pro-democracy newspaper Stand News, arresting…
Hong Kong Media Ceases Operation After Police Raid and 7 Arrests, Including Singer Denise Ho
Hong Kong’s press freedom took another dive on Dec. 29, after more than 200 national security police raided the office of a local online media outlet and arrested seven people, prompting several rights groups to issue statements expressing concerns. Stand News, a nonprofit news outlet set up in 2014, became the second Hong Kong media…
Over 200 Hong Kong Police Raid Local News Room, Arrest 6, Including Singer Denise Ho
December 28, 2021
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Over 200 police officers from Hong Kong’s National Security Department raided the offices of online pro-democracy media outlet Stand News on Dec. 29, while arresting six current and former staff members. They were arrested for “conspiracy to publish seditious publications,” the Hong Kong government announced in a statement. The announcement did not name the six…
Hong Kong Files Sedition Charge Against Media Tycoon Jimmy Lai
December 28, 2021
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Hong Kong prosecutors on Tuesday filed a “seditious publications” charge against Hong Kong pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai, adding to the charges he already faces under Beijing’s draconian national security law for his participation in a Tiananmen vigil in June 2020. The additional sedition charge accuses Apple Daily founder Lai, 74, of conspiracy to print,…
Hong Kong’s Press Freedom Is Under Siege: Former Apple Daily Director
October 15, 2021
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Mark Clifford, one of the former independent non-executive directors at Next Digital, told a congressional hearing on Oct. 14 how press freedom is under attack in Hong Kong, as evident by how the Chinese regime has driven Apple Daily to its deathbed. Apple Daily, which is published by Next Digital, is a Hong Kong newspaper…
Imprisoned Hong Kong Activist Jimmy Lai Awarded 2021 Liberty Medal
September 23, 2021
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Jailed Hong Kong pro-democracy activist and former owner of Apple Daily Jimmy Lai was awarded the 33rd annual Liberty Medal by the National Constitution Center on Tuesday. Lai was awarded the honor for his courage and conviction in exercising the fundamental rights of freedom of speech, nonviolent resistance, and peaceful dissent. Jeffrey Rosen, president and…
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