Hong Kong's Apple Daily editorial writer arrested at airport

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By ZEN SOO

HONG KONG (AP) — An editorial writer of the now-defunct Hong Kong pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily was arrested at the airport on Sunday night while attempting to leave the city, local media reported.

Local newspaper South China Morning Post and online news outlet Citizen News cited unidentified sources saying that editorial writer Fung Wai-kong was arrested on suspicion of foreign collusion to endanger national security.

Fung was believed to be leaving for Britain when he was arrested, local media reported. Police said they arrested a 57-year-old man at the airport Sunday night under the national security law, but did not identify him.

He is the seventh Apple Daily executive to be arrested in two weeks, as Hong Kong authorities crack down on dissent in the semi-autonomous city, arresting most of the city’s prominent pro-democracy figures and revamping Hong Kong’s election laws to keep opposition voices out of the legislature.



FILE - In this Thursday, June 17, 2021, file photo, a police officer stands guard outside the Apple Daily headquarters in Hong Kong after arresting the chief editor and four other senior executives of the newspaper under the national security law on suspicion of collusion with a foreign country to endanger national security. Fung Wai-kong, an editorial writer of the now-defunct Hong Kong pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily was arrested at the airport on Sunday night, June 27, 2021, while attempting to leave the city, local media reported Sunday. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)



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[abqtommy]

1. I'm pretty sure that in the long run the Chinese Leadership is going to be very sorry about

this.

[HUAJIAO]

5. I doubt it, to be honest.

[HUAJIAO]

6. I doubt it, to be honest.

[spudspud]

7. Highly unlikely, unfortunately. /nt

[ZonkerHarris]

8. hahaha

That was a joke right?

[sakabatou]

2. China sinks lower and lower into fascism

[bahboo]

4. yep...let's call it what it is....

[ZonkerHarris]

9. 72 years of dictatorship now since 1949. Surprize!

[Mysterian]

3. Big Bad China afraid of a newspaper writer

The corrupt Chinese government shows its true colors.