HONG KONG — Five hundred Hong Kong policeofficerssifted through reporters’ computers and notebooks at pro-democracy tabloidAppleDailyon Thursday, the first case in which authorities have cited media articles as potentially violating thenationalsecuritylaw.
Around dawn, police arrested five executives of the newspaper, andofficerswere later seen sitting at computers in thenewsroomafter entering with a warrant to seize journalistic materials, including from reporters’ phones and laptops.
The raid is the latest blow to media tycoon Jimmy Lai, the tabloid’s owner and a staunch Beijing critic, whose assets have been frozen under thesecuritylawand who is serving prison sentences fo…
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