In this June 23, 2021, file photo, Lam Man-chung, center, executive editor-in-chief of Apple Daily gestures at the headquarters before the newspaper stop publishing in Hong Kong. - AP
HONG KONG (AP): Hong Kong national security police on Wednesday (July 21) arrested a former editor at the now-defunct Apple Daily pro-democracy newspaper, weeks after the paper was forced to close after authorities froze its assets.
Lam Man-chung, who was the executive editor-in-chief of Apple Daily, was arrested on suspicion of conspiring to collude with foreign forces to endanger national security, according to the South China Morning Post newspaper, which cited an unnamed source. He is the eighth person from the newspaper who has been arrested in recent weeks.
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