Stand News, Hong Kong’s biggest remaining pro-democracy news outlet, yesterday announced on Facebook that it would immediately lay off all staff and cease operations, and take down its Web site and social media accounts within days.
The move came hours after more than 200 police raided the outlet’s newsroom, froze about HK$61 million (US$7.8 million) of assets and arrested seven people connected to it on a colonial-era sedition law.
Those arrested included acting Stand News editor-in-chief Patrick Lam (林紹桐) and Denise Ho (何韻詩), a pop star who had testified about Hong Kong before the US Congress.
Stand News had briefly been the largest
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