Hong Kong police raid pro-democracy newspaper

Hong Kong police have raided a pro-democracy newspaper.

200 police carried out a search warrant and 200 entered the Apple Daily headquarters. Police arrested the chief executive, the editor and three other senior executives.

The government says police arrested four men and one woman aged between 47 and 63 for “suspected contravention”, of the nation’s security law.

Update: HK police raid Apple Daily

5 executives were taken away, including Editor-in-Chief Ryan Law and #NextDigital CEO Cheung Kim-hung.

Officers were seen accessing journalists' computers, and all employees were barred from returning to their seats to work.#AppleDailyENG pic.twitter.com/45nsFWmCfE

— Apple Daily HK 蘋果日報 (@appledaily_hk) June 17, 2021

Police made the arrests on suspicion of collusion with a “foreign country or with external elements to endanger national security”.

Meanwhile, this is the second time that police have searched the building. The company’s founder Jimmy Lai, was recently arrested for national security violations. Mr Lai is currently serving a 20-month prison sentence.

The raid follows arrests made at the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre last month.