HONG KONG (Bloomberg): Hong Kong’s national security police arrested five executives of the pro-democracy Apple Daily newspaper for suspected breaches of the national security law, local news outlets reported Thursday (June 17), as the government escalated its campaign against well-known activist and media tycoon Jimmy Lai.
Those arrested included Apple Daily Editor-in-Chief Ryan Law and Next Digital Ltd. Chief Executive Officer Cheung Kim-hung, as more than 100 police officers descended on the newspaper’s Hong Kong headquarters.