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.
