In this Thursday, June 17, 2021, file photo, police officers escort Cheung Kim-hung, (centre), CEO and Executive Director of Next Digital Ltd at Apple Daily headquarters in Hong Kong. Fung Wai-kong, an editorial writer of the now-defunct Hong Kong pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily was arrested at the airport on June 27, 2021, while attempting to leave the city. - AP
HONG KONG (Reuters): Hong Kong police arrested a former senior journalist with the Apple Daily newspaper at the international airport on Sunday (June 27) night on a suspected national security charge as he tried to leave the city, according to media reports.
Fung Wai-kong would be the seventh staffer at the pro-democracy Apple Daily newspaper to be arrested on national security grounds in recent weeks. He was an editor and columnist at the now-closed paper, Hong Kong media reported.
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