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Ronson Chan waves to reporters during his visit to Stand News after the raids. At 6 a.m., on 29 December 2021, the National Security Department of the Hong Kong Police Force arrested six senior staff members of Stand News, including the former editor-in-chief Chung Pui-kuen, former legislator Margaret Ng, singer and activist Denise Ho, Chow Tat-chi and Christine Fang, accusing them of ...
A Hong Kong court convicted two former editors of a shuttered news outlet on Thursday, in a sedition case widely seen as a barometer for the future of media freedoms in a city once hailed as a ...
Stand News, once Hong Kong's leading online media with a mix of critical reportage and commentary, was raided by police in December 2021, and had its assets frozen, leading to its closure.
The now-shuttered news outlet was one of last in Hong Kong that dared to criticize authorities as Beijing imposed a crackdown on dissidents following massive pro-democracy protests in 2019. The closure came months after the demise of pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily , whose jailed founder Jimmy Lai is battling collusion charges under a tough ...
After Hong Kong police raided Stand News and arrested two editors, its staff decided that to avoid more arrests they had to shut down the online media outlet, whose hard-hitting reports of the ...
Patrick Lam (Chinese: 林绍桐) is a Hong Kong journalist. [1] Lam was formerly an editor at the now defunct pro-democracy Stand News . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He previously covered the crackdown on the city's civil liberties.
Chung, Lam, and Best Pencil (Hong Kong) Limited, the owner of Stand News, were charged with seditious publication on 30 December. [243] The four others were released on police bail. [249] Bails were denied for both Chung and Lam. [246] Police froze HK$61 million (US$7.8 million) of Stand News' assets. [250]
Two Hong Kong journalists who led the pro-democracy newspaper Stand News were sentenced to jail on Thursday after being convicted of sedition last month.