Updated 4 journalists at shut Hong Kong paper charged with collusion
HONG KONG (AP) Hong Kong police charged two top editors and two editorial writers at Apple Daily with collusion weeks after the city’s largest pro-democracy newspaper was forced to cease publication and its assets were frozen.
Executive Editor-in-Chief Lam Man-chung was the eighth executive or journalist at the shuttered newspaper arrested in recent weeks as city authorities crack down on dissent and China’s central government brings the semi-autonomous territory more under its control.
Lam was arrested Wednesday, according to the South China Morning Post newspaper, which cited an unnamed source. Associate Publisher and Deputy Chief Editor Chan Pui-man and editorial writers Fung Wai-kong and Yeung Ching-kee were also detained Wednesday after their bail was revoked, local media reported.
Hong Kong police charged two top editors and two editorial writers at Apple Daily with collusion weeks after the city s largest pro-democracy newspaper was forced to cease publication and its assets were frozen. Executive Editor-in-Chief Lam Man-chung was the eighth executive or journalist at the shuttered newspaper arrested in recent weeks as city authorities crackdown on dissent and China s central government brings the semi-autonomous territory more under its control. Lam was arrested Wednesday, according to the South China Morning Post newspaper, which cited an unnamed source. Associate Publisher and Deputy Chief Editor Chan Pui-man and editorial writers Fung Wai-kong and Yeung Ching-kee were also detained Wednesday after their bail was revoked, local media reported.
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Hong Kong s national security police detained two former senior staff of shuttered pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily on Wednesday, shortly after they arrested the paper s former executive editor-in-chief.
Local media reported that the paper s former deputy chief editor Chan Pui-man and managing editor Fung Wai-kong, who had already been arrested for colluding with foreign forces , were detained again while on police bail.
A police source told AFP that former executive editor-in-chief Lam Man-chung was detained on Wednesday morning.
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In two statements, police confirmed the arrest of a 51-year-old former newspaper editor for collusion with foreign forces , a national security crime, and the withdrawal of bail for a 51-year-old woman and a 57-year-old man over the same allegation.
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Lam Man-Chung, then-executive editor-in-chief of the Apple Daily and Chan Pui-man, the deputy chief editor at the time, react on the day of the newspaper s final edition in Hong Kong on June 23. | REUTERS
AFP-JIJI Jul 22, 2021
Hong Kong – Hong Kong’s national security police charged four former senior staff of shuttered pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily late Wednesday night.
Local media reported that the paper’s former deputy chief editor, Chan Pui-man, managing editor Fung Wai-kong and lead editorial writer Yeung Ching-kei, who had already been arrested for “colluding with foreign forces,” were detained again while on police bail.