HONG KONG: Hong Kong pro-democracy tabloid Apple Daily increased its press run today after 500 police officers raided its newsroom yesterday and seized reporting materials as part of a probe into whether articles threatened China’s national security.
Police arrested five executives, including Apple Daily’s chief editor, at dawn yesterday and froze HK$18 million of assets owned by three companies linked to the paper before cordoning off the building.
It was the second time police had raided the newsroom after the arrest last year of media tycoon Jimmy Lai, a pro-democracy activist and staunch Beijing critic, who owns Next Digital , which publishes Apple Daily.
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