kanbukai.com 2021-12-31 18:33:50
Friday, 31 December 2021
- Police sent 200 officers to raid Stand News
- Seven were arrested on “seditious publications” offences, including cantopop singer and activist Denise Ho (HOCC)
- Stand News was the most prominent pro-democracy publication left in Hong Kong after a national security investigation this year that led to the closure of jailed tycoon Jimmy Lai’s Apple Daily tabloid
- Germany, U.N. decry assault on press freedom
- USA: We call on People’s Republic of China and Hong Kong authorities to cease targeting Hong Kong’s free and independent media and to immediately release those journalists and media executives who have been unjustly detained and charged
Hong Kong pro-democracy Stand News closes after police raids condemned by U.N., Germany