Another senior editor of Hong Kong's now-closed Apple Daily tabloid has been arrested under a sweeping national security law that is being used to investigate media tycoon Jimmy Lai's newspaper
Apple Daily, an unapologetic backer of the democracy movement, put out its last edition last month after its top leadership was arrested and its assets frozen under the security law.Authorities said Apple Daily's reporting and editorials backed calls for international sanctions against China, a political stance that has been criminalised by the new security law.
The tabloid's owner Jimmy Lai, 73, is currently in prison and has been charged with collusion alongside two other executives who have been denied bail.Among the others arrested, but currently not charged, are two of the paper's leading editorial writers, including one who was detained at Hong Kong's airport as he tried to leave the city.
The paper's sudden demise was a stark warning to all media outlets on the reach of a new national security law in a city that once billed itself as a beacon of press freedom in the region. Last week the Hong Kong Journalists Association said media freedoms were "in tatters" as China remoulds the once outspoken business hub in its own authoritarian image.
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