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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 ...
Stand News, once Hong Kong's leading online media outlet, was known for its hard-hitting reports about the city's 2019 pro-democracy protests and later the national security crackdown.
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.