Hong Kong media 'Stand News' shut down after police raids US Mawei 'released executive'

Stand News, Hong Kong's pro-democratic media, was shut down on Tuesday (Dec 29) following a police raid. Freeze property It included the arrest of a senior editor and a former executive on charges of "publishing sedition media", while the United States stoked Beijing and Hong Kong to free all those arrested. The operation of the Hong Kong police has fueled concerns about press freedom in Hong Kong. and called out condemnation from both Germany and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. which expressed concern that "The media and areas of independent opinion of Hong Kong…