EXCLUSIVE Adviser to jailed HK tycoon Jimmy Lai says Apple Daily to shut within days

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Hong Kong pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily will be forced to shut 'in a matter of days' after authorities froze the company's assets under a sweeping national security law, an adviser to jailed tycoon Jimmy Lai told Reuters on Monday.

A supporter holds a copy of Apple Daily newspaper during a court hearing outside West Magistrates’ Courts, after police charge two executives of the pro-democracy Apple Daily newspaper over the national security law, in Hong Kong, China, June 19, 2021. REUTERS/Lam Yik

"We thought we'd be able to make it to the end of the month," Simon said. "It's just getting harder and harder. It's essentially a matter of days." Three other executives were also arrested last Thursday when 500 police officers raided the newspaper's offices in a case that has drawn condemnation from Western nations, global rights groups and the chief U.N. spokesperson for human rights.Simon told Reuters it had become impossible to conduct banking operations.

The newspaper has come under increasing pressure since owner and staunch Beijing critic Jimmy Lai, who is now in jail, was arrested under the national security law last August and has since had some of his assets frozen.

 

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Good news. Apple Daily is rubbish

The freezing of AppleDaily bank accounts is to put her in financial problem & then leads to the shutdown by herself. This is the ultimate outcome that the nasty CCP & local regimes want. Hope appledaily_hk can at least operate AFTER July1st.

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NationalSecurityLaw is frequently being proved as evil EnablingAct in 1930s of Hilter's Nazi as persecution tool by CCP totalitarian, but not 'protection' of anyone freedom & rights in Hong Kong. The persecution against Apple Daily staffs are war crime.

By imposing unilaterally the so-called NationalSecurityLaw on HongKong, CCPChina_Enemy_of_Democracy is showing the world how to destroy UniversalValues & Morality. ChiNazi is a threat to global norms. Freedom, Democracy, HumanRights in HK are not internal affairs.

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