Hong Kong police declare Apple Daily newsroom a crime scene as editors and executives arrested under national security law

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(CNN Business)Hong Kong police declared the Apple Daily newspaper office a crime scene Thursday, after 500 officers descended on the premises to arrest executives and top editors and seize journalistic materials under the city's national security law.
Apple Daily said Thursday that the company's CEO Cheung Kim Hung, COO Chow Tat Kuen and chief editor Ryan Law, along with the deputy chief editor and online editor were all arrested and accused of colluding with foreign forces to endanger national security — a provision of the sweeping legislation introduced last year that banned sedition, secession and subversion against Beijing.
"This case involves a conspiracy," Hong Kong Security Secretary John Lee told reporters at a press conference Thursday, adding that the police raid was targeted at those who use journalism as a "tool to endanger national security."

Senior superintendent Steve Li, of the police's national security department, said 18 million Hong Kong dollars ($2.3 million) in assets related to the newspaper had been frozen. The assets are owned by three companies: Apple Daily, Apple Publishing & A.D. Internet Limited.

The publication live-streamed the early morning raid on its Facebook page, showing police asking staff to show proof of identity, and blocking them from returning to their desks.
The Hong Kong government confirmed Thursday that it had arrested five "directors of a company" on suspicion of violating the national security law and that officers had obtained a search warrant which gave officers the power to seize journalist material.

Hong Kong police on Thursday arrested executives and top editors at Apple Daily, and seized journalistic materials as part of the city's national security law.
After the initial raid, Li said Apple Daily's headquarters was now a crime scene, and that officers had confiscated electronic devices, such as mobile phones, computers and laptops. In images published online by Apple Daily, police officers could be seen examining computers at the office.

Hong Kong police declare Apple Daily newsroom a crime scene as editors and executives arrested under national security law

Hong Kong police declared the Apple Daily newspaper office a crime scene Thursday, after 500 officers descended on the premises to arrest executives and top editors and seize journalistic materials under the city's national security law.

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[PeaceGen]

with each of these steps, Chinese leaders further delegitimize their hold on power.
this is nothing short of getting rid of freedom of the press under the false pretense of protecting national security so that only the hypocritical narratives pushed forth by the CCP reach the populace.
what the CCP fails to realize however, is that they undermine their own claim to power by this and their many other very shady "business" practices, domestically and abroad..

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/hong-kong-apple-daily-security-law/2021/06/16/747137b8-ceff-11eb-8014-2f3926ca24d9_story.html

 

[Falconless]

with each of these steps, Chinese leaders further delegitimize their hold on power.
this is nothing short of getting rid of freedom of the press under the false pretense of protecting national security so that only the hypocritical narratives pushed forth by the CCP reach the populace.

They don't care, it's all about scaring and intimidating the people into subjugation, and to a large extent they have succeeded.

 

[redtom]

Mark Simon Advertising director at Apple Daily. Former CIA, chairman of the Hong Kong branch of the Republican Party.

An NBC investigation reports that Apple Daily made up fake news about Joe Biden to try to interfere with the US election.

How a fake persona laid the groundwork for a Hunter Biden conspiracy deluge

A 64-page document that was later disseminated by close associates of President Donald Trump appears to be the work of a fake "intelligence firm."

www.nbcnews.com

The boss of Apple Daily claims that his assistants do all the work and he has nothing to do with it.

Hong Kong media boss distances himself from contentious Hunter Biden-China report

Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai said he personally had "nothing to do with" a report on alleged China business links of the son of U.S. presidential candidate Joe Biden, but admitted funds from his private firm had been used to fund it.

www.reuters.com

They are spies, they should not be arrested, they should be shot.


My question is, are you also employed by the CIA?

 

[Nan Yang]

Mark Simon Advertising director at Apple Daily. Former CIA, chairman of the Hong Kong branch of the Republican Party.

An NBC investigation reports that Apple Daily made up fake news about Joe Biden to try to interfere with the US election.

How a fake persona laid the groundwork for a Hunter Biden conspiracy deluge

A 64-page document that was later disseminated by close associates of President Donald Trump appears to be the work of a fake "intelligence firm."

www.nbcnews.com

The boss of Apple Daily claims that his assistants do all the work and he has nothing to do with it.

Hong Kong media boss distances himself from contentious Hunter Biden-China report

Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai said he personally had "nothing to do with" a report on alleged China business links of the son of U.S. presidential candidate Joe Biden, but admitted funds from his private firm had been used to fund it.

www.reuters.com

They are spies, they should not be arrested, they should be shot.


My question is, are you also employed by the CIA?

Biden should say thank you to the Hong Kong police.

After all didn't Biden just say the influencing an US election is his red line?

 

[redtom]

Biden should say thank you to the Hong Kong police.

After all didn't Biden just say the influencing an US election is his red line?

This is a dialectical question. The BOSS of their campaign is the Republicans.The money was provided by Taiwan and the operation was carried out by Apple Daily's News Corporation, Falun Gong and the Republican right-wing media. You can say it's Americans' problem, or you can say China is meddling in the US election.

Like Falun Gong and Taiwan. They are an anti-China group and at the same time, they have successfully misled the US. The US has gone down the wrong path and there is no turning back. The US has begun to use its intelligence services and military to engage in political warfare. The US used the CIA's foreign propaganda media to influence the election.

The Americans destroyed the American system under the influence of the Chinese, but their original intention was to oppose China. The question then becomes, is it the Chinese or the Americans who destroyed the US?

 

[jbond197]

Mark Simon Advertising director at Apple Daily. Former CIA, chairman of the Hong Kong branch of the Republican Party.

An NBC investigation reports that Apple Daily made up fake news about Joe Biden to try to interfere with the US election.

How a fake persona laid the groundwork for a Hunter Biden conspiracy deluge

A 64-page document that was later disseminated by close associates of President Donald Trump appears to be the work of a fake "intelligence firm."

www.nbcnews.com

The boss of Apple Daily claims that his assistants do all the work and he has nothing to do with it.

Hong Kong media boss distances himself from contentious Hunter Biden-China report

Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai said he personally had "nothing to do with" a report on alleged China business links of the son of U.S. presidential candidate Joe Biden, but admitted funds from his private firm had been used to fund it.

www.reuters.com

They are spies, they should not be arrested, they should be shot.


My question is, are you also employed by the CIA?

What do you think should happen to Chinese Spies in US then?? A trial or shot at sight?

 

[redtom]

What do you think should happen to Chinese Spies in US then?? A trial or shot at sight?

That's up to the Americans.They're good at killing people anyway, they don't need proof.We're different. We don't kill until we have proof.

A real communist spy. Triple agent, Chinese Communist Party, Chinese Kuomintang, Japan.This photo was taken before being executed by the Chinese Kuomintang as a traitor. Face death with a smile

 

[jbond197]

That's up to the Americans.They're good at killing people anyway, they don't need proof.We're different. We don't kill until we have proof.

Yupp we saw your proofs in Tiananmen square against innocent students ah I guess they were CIA agents as well. Also, even a Chinese spy will get better justice in America than a common Chinese can ever get in China.

 

[redtom]

Yupp we saw your proofs in Tiananmen square against innocent students ah I guess they were CIA agents as well. Also, even a Chinese spy will get better justice in America than a common Chinese can ever get in China.

Then I give you my blessing to go to guantanamo and enjoy American human rights.

 

[Nan Yang]

This is a dialectical question. The BOSS of their campaign is the Republicans.The money was provided by Taiwan and the operation was carried out by Apple Daily's News Corporation, Falun Gong and the Republican right-wing media. You can say it's Americans' problem, or you can say China is meddling in the US election.

Like Falun Gong and Taiwan. They are an anti-China group and at the same time, they have successfully misled the US. The US has gone down the wrong path and there is no turning back. The US has begun to use its intelligence services and military to engage in political warfare. The US used the CIA's foreign propaganda media to influence the election.

The Americans destroyed the American system under the influence of the Chinese, but their original intention was to oppose China. The question then becomes, is it the Chinese or the Americans who destroyed the US?

America is becoming a profitable market for mis information.
Even foreigners are jumping in.

Chinese businessman with links to Steve Bannon is driving force for a sprawling disinformation network, researchers say

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/05/17/guo-wengui-disinformation-steve-bannon/%3foutputType=amp

 

[jbond197]

Then I give you my blessing to go to guantanamo and enjoy American human rights.

That's the place for the dreaded people who deserve to be there no comparison to innocent students crushed under the tanks (are you seriously proud of the act?)!!

 

[CAPRICORN-88]

The Police did acquired a warrant in their raid as required under the law.

These are not China's law but based on common laws as left behind by the British Colonialist.
Hong Kong is still under One Country Two Systems.

The Judge is fully satisfied that a new search warrant is justified as many journalists during the previous raid claimed that the original warrant did not state that the police has the right to detain and examined their notebooks and mobile phones.

Those arrested and detained are based on the evidences gathered in the earlier raid.

They have found very incriminating evidences and records of instructions from foreign power and funding when scouring through the documents and emails.

FYI Australian Police did that to ABC many years ago and why did the CNN and others demonized Australian Government?

 

[CAPRICORN-88]

Did the spin doctors at CNN said Apple Daily is now considered as a crime scene as in a murder?



I believe the Hong Kong Police has moles inside the Apple Daily organisation as they know exactly who are the offenders and which computer to seize.
Apple Daily loses millions of dollars annually but can continue to operate for decades. Where does its funds come from?

Mark Simon (rumored to be a CIA operative) a confidante of Benny Lai has fled to Taiwan.
Mark confessed that he commissioned a Professor at a Vietnamese University to write an discriminating article about Biden (To help Trump re-election bid) for USD40,000 to try to save his boss Benny from breaching Hong Kong National Security Act.
When investigated the Professor admitted that as well.
It seems he had wrote the article based solely on information supplied by Mark Simon. They were false information.

In a crime scene, everyone has to leave but the workers are all still working there but with worrisome thoughts of whether or not, this tabloid news publishing house will pay their salaries this month.

 

[redtom]

That's the place for the dreaded people who deserve to be there no comparison to innocent students crushed under the tanks (are you seriously proud of the act?)!!

If you like tanks, you should join the US Army. So when you ask for a pension, your intestines can lubricate the track