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Apple Daily, a defiantly pro-democracy newspaper in Hong Kong that has come under intense pressure from the authorities, said on Wednesday that it would cease operations this week. The police on Wednesday also arrested one of Apple Daily’s opinion writers in an investigation that has drawn concerns over the state of media freedoms in the city. The board of directors for Apple Daily’s parent, Next Digital, announced that the paper would stop publishing in print and online by Saturday, after the police last week froze its accounts and arrested top editors and executives. The closure will silence one of the...
