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Hong Kong Police arrested the former Apple Daily editor in Chief

Hong Kong: Hong Kong Police arrested former Apple Daily Pro-Democracy Executive Editor on Wednesday, local media reported that the latest arrest in the national security investigation of the Jimmy Lai Tycoon newspaper.
The police, who usually do not identify individuals who are being investigated, said in a statement they have arrested former 51-year-old men’s newspaper editor of suspicion “conspiring to collude with foreign countries or foreign forces to endanger national security.” The next digital media group, which published Apple Daily, did not immediately respond to a comment request.
Popular tabloids from Staunch Beijing Critic Lai folded after several hundred police stormed his headquarters on June 17 and freeze the main assets and bank accounts.
This scored his last edition on June 24.
Police said dozens of articles might have violated the National Security Law which was forced by China, the first example of the authorities who target media reports under the law.
Law criticism, introduced in June 2020, said it has been used to reinforce the difference in the muzzle and erode the fundamental freedom, including people from the media, in the former British colony, which returned to the Chinese government in 1997.
The authority has denied erosion of his rights and freedom In Hong Kong, but has said the actions that endanger Chinese national security across the red line.
Security officials said law enforcement measures were based on evidence and had nothing to do with the background or individual profession.

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