Apple Daily & HKFP are next on the authorities list and the process has started as of this morning…
- Publisher Cheung Kim-hung, editor-in-chief Ryan Law taken to tabloid’s Tseung Kwan O headquarters to assist in investigation, with other arrestees expected to follow; journalists barred from newsroom as more than 200 police swoop on offices
- One police source said the alleged offence was tied to ‘reports published in the paper’, but declined to elaborate
Hong Kong’s national security police arrested the editor-in-chief and four other directors of the Apple Daily tabloid early on Thursday on suspicion of conspiracy to collude with foreign forces in the latest operation under the Beijing-imposed legislation
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Police said five directors, including four men and a woman aged between 47 and 63, had been arrested for collusion with a foreign country or with external elements to endanger national security, contravening Article 29 of the law. Searches were conducted on their respective residences, but none had yet been charged.
Sources told the Post the arrested were Cheung Kim-hung, publisher of Apple Daily and CEO of parent company Next Digital; Apple Daily editor-in-chief Ryan Law Wai-kwong; Next Digital chief financial officer Royston Chow Tat-kuen; Apple Daily associate publisher Chan Pui-man; and Apple Daily digital director Cheung Chi-wai.
Read more at the South China Post
