Apple Daily vows to continue pro-democracy battle amid police crackdown on activists
Hong Kong media tycoon and Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai is escorted by the police on August 11 2020 in Hong Kong. Picture: GETTY IMAGES/ANTHONY KWAN
“Apple Daily must fight on,” the front page headline read, amid fears the national security law amounts to an assault on freedom of speech in the semi-autonomous territory. “What the police did interfered with press freedom brutally,” said 45-year-old Kim Yau as she bought a copy. “All Hong Kongers with a conscience have to support Hong Kong, support Apple Daily.”
On the mainland, the China Daily newspaper wrote in an editorial that Lai's arrest showed “the cost of dancing with the enemy”. The Beijing-backed paper added that “justice delayed didn’t mean the absence of justice”.Shares in Lai’s media company, Next Digital, which publishes Apple Daily, surged for a second consecutive day after online pro-democracy forums called on investors to show support.
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