Hong Kong police charge four former Apple Daily staff members under security law

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Hong Kong's national security police charged four former senior staff members of shuttered newspaper Apple Daily late on Wednesday night (Jul 21).

In a late Wednesday statement, police said they officially laid charges against four persons aged 51 to 57, for the offence of"conspiracy to collude with foreign forces".Lam is the eighth employee of Apple Daily arrested within a month under a sweeping national security law that Beijing imposed on Hong Kong last year after huge and often violent democracy protests.Lam's girlfriend told local media Citizen News that the arrest was made at home at dawn.

Chan, 51, was among the five executives who were arrested in mid-June after hundreds of security officers raided the paper's newsroom.Yeung, 55, who wrote under the pen name Li Ping for the paper's editorials - which express the editorial board's official views - was arrested days after the police raid.

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.and has been charged with collusion alongside two other executives who have been denied bail.READ: Landmark Hong Kong security trial wraps up in test for rule of law

 

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