A Hong Kong court on Thursday charged two former editors for a pro-democracy media outlet with sedition and denied them bail.
The move comes …
A Hong Kong court on Thursday charged two former editors for a pro-democracy media outlet with sedition and denied them bail. The move comes one day after Stand News was forced to close following a raid by police officers and the arrests of seven current and former senior editors and board members. In the latest move to crack down on pro-democracy institutions, roughly 200 police officers raided the online publication Wednesday and froze its assets. Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam defended the Stand News raid, and told reporters that „inciting other people…could not be condoned under the guise of news reporting.“ U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken condemned the move and said, „Journalism is not sedition.
