Hongkong – Another act of state repression in Hong Kong!
Police from the Chinese Special Administrative Region ransacked the online media’s office “Stand News” on Wednesday (local time) after arresting six employees and former employees (34 to 73 years old) for allegedly “conspiring to publish an insurgent publication”.
More than 200 officers took part in the search, the police said. They had an arrest warrant to confiscate relevant journalistic materials under a national security law passed last year.
The arrests occurred early Wednesday. The journalists’ homes were also searched, the police said.
The police did not identify those arrested, but the medium “Stand News” published a video on Facebook of police officers standing in front of the house of the editor Ronson Chan with a search warrant and demanding that the journalist open his door.
Chan is also the chairman of the Hong Kong Journalists’ Association. The arrests are in response to critical reports from online journalists.
Hong Kong prosecutors on Tuesday charged former newspaper publisher Jimmy Lai with sedition. Its Apple Daily newspaper was closed and the company’s assets were frozen.
The Chinese regime has everything that reminds of Beijing’s crimes erased – including in Hong Kong. A democracy monument was removed from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) on Thursday night: The “goddess of democracy” was modeled on a statue that demonstrators held on March 3rd and 4th. Demonstrated for freedom in Beijing’s Tian’anmen Square on June 6th, 1989.
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