Pro-democracy Hong Kong newspaper shares halted after asset freeze


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Print (FILES) In this file photo taken on December 12, 2020, Hong Kong pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai (C) is led into a police van as he heads to court to be charged under the territory’s controversial new National Security Law in Hong Kong. – Hong Kong authorities on May 14 announced they had frozen the assets of Lai, including shares in his media publications, for breaching the city’s national security law. (Photo by PETER PARKS / AFP) The trading of stock in Hong Kong’s largest pro-democracy media group was halted Monday, days after authorities froze the assets of its...