Hong Kong pro-democracy newspaper may stop publication this week


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Isaac Umunna Comment(0) The parent company of Hong Kong pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily will decide this week whether to shut down the publication. The newspaper’s apparent imminent closure comes just days after authorities froze $2.3 million of its assets last week, shortly after more than 500 police officers raided Apple Daily’s offices and arrested its chief editor, Ryan Law, and four other executives with the newspaper and Next Digital. Mark Simon, an advisor to jailed Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai, told news outlets that executives of Next Digital were planning to hold a board meeting Monday to discuss the...