Last year, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets of Hong Kong to demand full democracy, many egged on by a tabloid newspaper critical of China's ruling Communist Party. On Tuesday, they ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong rallies around Apple Daily after arrest of founder Jimmy Lai
Newspaper prints 500,000 copies, up from 100,000, as readers queue for hours to buy pro-democracy tabloid ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong’s Apple Daily vows to fight on after owner arrested
Hong Kong's Apple Daily tabloid responded with defiance on Tuesday to the arrest of owner Jimmy Lai under a new national security law imposed by Beijing, promising to fight on in a front-page headline ... ( read original story ...)
‘The next Hong Kong’: Taiwan’s foreign minister sounds warning over China
Joseph Wu tells visiting US health secretary Taiwan lives under constant threat of its freedoms being quashed by Beijing ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong’s security law is transforming the city even faster than expected
It's been less than six weeks since a security law banning secession, subversion and collusion came into force in Hong Kong. But it's already having a dramatic effect on the city's political, media ... ( read original story ...)
China’s unrelenting crackdown on Hong Kong
Monday’s arrests underscored the speed with which the former British colony’s political freedoms — including rights to assembly and freedom of the press — are being curtailed by Beijing. ( read original story ...)
From Belarus to Hong Kong, journalists ‘are bearing the brunt of the global surge in repression’
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Hong Kong police arrest media tycoon, 8 others under new security law
Police in Hong Kong on Monday raided the offices of local newspaper Apple Daily and arrested several people, including the media organization's outspoken pro-democracy founder Jimmy Lai. ( read original story ...)
Apple Daily: Hong Kong newspaper defiant after crackdown
The arrests have sparked condemnation of the escalating crackdown on dissent. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said China had "eviscerated Hong Kong’s freedoms". On Tuesday, Apple Daily's front page ... ( read original story ...)
‘Apple Daily must fight on,’ Hong Kong tabloid front page reads after owner arrest
Hong Kong's Apple Daily tabloid responded with defiance on Tuesday to the arrest of owner Jimmy Lai under a new national security law imposed by Beijing, promising to "fight on" in a front-page ... ( read original story ...)
Jimmy Lai Is Arrested in Hong Kong. Freedom Loses Again.
Early on Monday, the police in Hong Kong arrested Jimmy Lai, founder of the popular tabloid Apple Daily, on charges of collusion with a foreign country, one of the vaguely defined crimes under the ... ( read original story ...)
Pompeo says he is not optimistic China will rethink its position on Hong Kong
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday said he is not optimistic that China will rethink its position on Hong Kong, particularly after the arrest of media tycoon Jimmy Lai under Hong Kong's new ... ( read original story ...)
Who are Jimmy Lai and Agnes Chow, two of the Hong Kong democracy advocates arrested Monday?
The arrests targeted two of the city’s best-known pro-democracy figures: newspaper mogul Jimmy Lai, 71, whose resistance to Beijing dates back to the aftermath of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre; ... ( read original story ...)
China sanctions U.S. lawmakers, non-profit leaders over Hong Kong
China announced sanctions Monday against U.S. lawmakers and the heads of several U.S. non-profit organizations over their support for Hong Kong. ( read original story ...)