Hong Kong: Hong Kong Police robbed the Online News Outlet Office on Wednesday after arresting six people for a conspiracy to publish calm publications.
More than 200 officers took part in the search, police said.
They have a warrant to seize relevant journalistic material under the National Security Act applied last year.
The sixth was arrested early Wednesday under the crime regulation of the colonial era for the conspiracy to publish calm publications, and the search for their residence was ongoing, police said.
According to the postpartum after the local South China, the police arrested the current one and a former editor at Stand News, as well as four former council members including the singer and activist Denise Ho and former Margaret Parliament members.
The police did not identify those arrested.
Wednesday morning, Stand News posted videos on the Facebook of Police OfficRators at the home of a deputy editor, Ronson Chan, to investigate alleged charges.
Chan, who is also the Chair of the Hong Kong journalist association, was not arrested but was taken to be questioned, according to South China Post Morning Morning.
The arrest came when the authorities act against differences in semi-autonomous Chinese city.
The police collected former Jimmy Lai newspaper publishers with incitement on Tuesday.
The Apple Daily newspaper was closed after his asset was frozen.
News standing earlier this year said it would suspend a subscription and remove most of the opinions and columns from its website due to national security law.
Six council members also resigned from the company.
Benedict Rogers, Co-Founder and CEO of the Hong Kong Watch Non-Government Organization, said the arrest was “ not lacking an all-out attack on press freedom in Hong Kong.
“When the free press is guaranteed by Hong Kong’s basic law labeled` hanging, ‘This is a speed symbol where the international city is once, open, international has dropped to a little more than a police station, “he said.
Wednesday’s arrest also followed the elimination of statues and other artwork from the University campus last week.
The works supported democracy and memorial victims of China’s hard action on democracy demonstrators in Beijing Tiananmen square in 1989.
Hong Kong Police Raid Online News Outlet, Arrest 6
