HONG KONG – Hong Kong pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily increased its print run more than fivefold to 500,000 copies as residents lined up Friday to buy the paper in a show of support for beleaguered press freedoms.
The raid on the paper’s offices by hundreds of police and security agents – along with the freezing of $2.3 million worth of its assets – marked the first time a sweeping national security law was used against the media.
Editors were arrested on suspicion of foreign collusion to endanger national security, based on over 30 articles that authorities said had called for international sanctions against China and Hong Kong.(AP)
