Hong Kong police arrest newspaper management. Its copies are selling like hot cakes. Freedom dies, but by fighting
Hong Kong police arrested five Apple Daily executives in a spectacular raid on June 17 after a spectacular and intimidating raid. All have been charged under the controversial National Security Act of colluding with foreign forces to endanger national security .
At 7:30 am on June 17, 500 police officers descended into the Apple Daily offices in Tseung Kwan O to arrest the company's chief executive, Cheung Kim-hung, the chief operating officer, Royston Chow, the chief editor, Ryan Law. , associate editor, Chan Pui-man, and Apple Daily Digital platform director Cheung Chi-wai.
Journalists' materials inside the office were also seized during the raid, and approximately $ 2.32 million worth of assets belonging to Apple Daily, Apple Publishing and AD Internet Limited were frozen.
The accusation is not fresh, but, following a common usage also on Western social platforms, it has selected 30 articles, in Chinese and English, of 2019, and put them on the index as "Support for the sanctions of foreign states in Hong Kong ".
The goal is, of course, intimidating. We want to silence the last free voices of Hong Kong which, by now, is on the way to being a kind of financialized copy of China. The effect, however, according to Reuters reports , was different: copies of the Apple Daily disappeared from Hong Kong stores and the circulation, which was previously around 80,000 copies, reached 500,000 copies, a figure that Italian journalons dream. Lines have even formed in front of newsstands to be able to buy the newspaper that has had emergency reissues.
Apple Daily is a newspaper that mixes big news and gossip, but is still one of the last independent rumors of the former British colony. With this very simple gesture, the population shows their attachment to a dying freedom, at least they try.
In Italy to lead the press you just have to pay the directors. In Hong Kong they have to arrest them. However, we are sure that Travaglio will propose to lead the newspaper attacked by the Chinese authorities, or perhaps Grillo will suggest it directly to the Beijing ambassador …
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