Hong Kong police arrested prominent pro-democracy campaigner and newspaper mogul Jimmy Lai on Monday morning on charges of colluding with foreign forces, an offence under the new National Security …
Later in the morning, more than 100 police officers raided the offices of Lai’s Next Media, publisher of the Apple Daily newspaper. The police said they were exercising a warrant issued by a magistrate.
The new law removes the separation between the two jurisdictions by allowing mainland security forces to operate legally within Hong Kong, and by allowing suspects and cases to be moved across the border for trial in the People’s Republic. Critics of the raid said that the police had not disclosed the contents of the warrant and that officers had exceeded the terms as stated by senior superintendent of the national security department Steve Li, who told reporters that the force would not searching editorial department or interfere with journalistic materials. However, live streamed video showed officers riffling through the contents of the desks of Apple Daily journalists.
“With police raiding a newsroom and a handcuffed editor doing a perp walk, I would say HK as we knew it is already unrecognizable. These scenes are shocking. And shameful,” said Keith Richburg, head of the University of Hong Kong’s journalism department, via Twitter.
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