Employees walk at the Apple Daily and Next Digital’s headquarters in Hong Kong on June 23, 2021. - Reuters
HONG KONG (Reuters): Hong Kong's pro-democracy tabloid Apple Daily will stop operating no later than Saturday (June 26), its publisher, Next Digital, said on Wednesday after national security police arrested another employee of the besieged newspaper.
The end of the popular 26-year-old tabloid, which mixes pro-democracy discourse with racy celebrity gossip and investigations of those in power, has escalated alarm over media freedom and other rights in the Chinese-ruled city.
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