In this file picture taken on December 12, 2020, Hong Kong pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai (centre) is led into a police van as he heads to court to be charged under the territory's controversial new National Security Law. The arrest of five senior executives over content published in Hong Kong's pro-democracy Apple Daily newspaper is a stark warning to all media outlets on the reach of a new national security law, analysts and industry figures say. - AFP
HONG KONG, June 21 (Reuters): 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 national security law, an adviser to jailed owner Jimmy Lai told Reuters on Monday.
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