Hong Kong: Targeting of pro-democracy newspaper threatens press freedom


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Hong Kong: Targeting of pro-democracy newspaper threatens press freedom 10 August 2020, 15:33 UTC Responding to today’s arrests of prominent publisher Jimmy Lai and six others under the national security law amid a police raid on the Apple Daily newspaper, Amnesty International’s Asia-Pacific Regional Director, Nicholas Bequelin, said: “The arrest of Jimmy Lai for allegedly ‘colluding with foreign powers’ is a disturbing demonstration of how the Hong Kong authorities intend to use the new national security law to threaten press freedom. “It appears that Jimmy Lai and Apple Daily have been targeted due to the newspaper’s criticism of the Chinese...