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Hong Kong police on Thursday formally charged two people from an online pro-democracy news outlet with sedition, a day after the outlet said it would cease operations following a police raid on its ... ( read original story ...)

Two former senior editors arrested in a Hong Kong police crackdown on a pro-democracy media organisation were charged on Thursday with sedition-related offences, national security authorities said. ( read original story ...)

US secretary of state says Stand News journalists and and media executives have been ‘unjustly detained’, undermining Hong Kong’s credibility ... ( read original story ...)

The police raid and arrests at the now-closed pro-democracy Stand News outlet were law enforcement actions and were not aimed at the media industry, Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said on Thursday. ( read original story ...)

Company overcame a hump on its journey to listing after the U.S. government added it to an investment blacklist that barred Americans from buying shares in the firm. ( read original story ...)

Antony Blinken took to social media to express concern after a Hong Kong pro-democracy media outlet was raided and shut .down ... ( read original story ...)

Shares in SenseTime jumped more than 20 per cent on its first day of trading almost three weeks after it postponed its initial public offering when the US blacklisted China’s biggest artificial ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong police shut down a pro-democracy media outlet Stand News. The website is one of the last remaning openly critical publications. Dec. 29, 2021 © 2021 NBC UNIVERSAL ... ( read original story ...)

Again and again throughout 2021, the Hong Kong authorities and the central government in Beijing stamped out nearly everything the pro-democracy movement had stood for. ( read original story ...)

Reports say editors, board members and pop singer were held in early morning sweep as 200 officers raid office ... ( read original story ...)

A pro-democracy website in Hong Kong shut down after police raided its office and arrested seven in a continuing crackdown on dissent. ( read original story ...)

Analysis: the police raid and closure of the pro-democracy website has left journalists wondering who will be next ... ( read original story ...)

A pro-democracy news outlet in Hong Kong was shut down on Wednesday following a police raid on its office. The actions taken against Stand News included the freezing of its financial assets, and the ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong police raided the headquarters of one of the city's last pro-democracy news sites and jailed seven current and former employees and contributors on Wednesday. Stand News was founded 2014 as ... ( read original story ...)