The executive editor-in-chief of Apple Daily was arrested on suspicion of conspiring to collude with foreign forces to endanger national security. He is the eighth person from the newspaper who has been arrested in recent weeks.
HONG KONG — Hong Kong national security police on Wednesday arrested a former editor at the now-defunct Apple Daily pro-democracy newspaper, weeks after it was forced to close after authorities froze its assets.
Chan was among five Apple Daily executives and editors arrested on June 17, and Fung was first arrested at the airport late last month while allegedly attempting to leave on a flight to the U.K. “Whoever committed an offense will be arrested, disregarding their background, whatever they do, or what are their professions,” he said.
“Freedom of the press and the freedom to publish are important cornerstones for the success of an international city,” it said in a statement on its Facebook page.
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