Magistrate Peter Law in the West Kowloon Magistrates' Court denied bail applications for former Stand News chief editor Chung Pui-kuen and acting chief editor Patrick Lam. Hong Kong laws restrict media coverage of bail hearings.
Reuters could not reach Best Pencil or any of the seven arrested on Wednesday or their legal representatives for comment.A police van carrying Stand News former editor-in-chief Chung Pui-kuen arrives at West Kowloon Magistrates' Courts, after been charged with conspiring to publish seditious material in Hong Kong, China, December 30, 2021.
"These actions have nothing to do with so-called suppression of press freedom," she told reporters. "Journalism is not seditious ... but seditious activities could not be condoned under the guise of news reporting."Set up in 2014 as a non-profit organisation, Stand News was the most prominent remaining independent pro-democracy publication in Hong Kong after a national security investigation this year led to the closure of jailed tycoon Jimmy Lai's Apple Daily newspaper.
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