This is a really sad day for the staff and readers of Apple Daily and a truly bad day for press freedom and free speech
Following the imposition of the sweeping national security law in June last year, Beijing’s latest assault on Apple Daily is a particularly graphic example of the CCP’s long campaign of crackdown on dissent and democracy in Hong Kong – and which has also seen the imprisonment of the paper’s founder, Jimmy Lai.
Where is global Britain is in all of this? Will the custodians of the Sino-British joint declaration speak up on the egregious violation of human rights and for press freedom?
