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Hong Kong’s Apple Daily Poised for Closure Following Arrests, Asset Freeze

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Apple Daily, Hong Kong’s most-read newspaper and the territory’s leading opposition voice, may end all its operations by the end of this week.Local authorities and the city’s new Security Bureau have arrested several of its top editors on national security grounds and ordered the freezing of HK$18 million ($2.3 million) of its affiliates’ financial assets.

Five hundred police raided the newspaper’s headquarters last week, rifling through and confiscating journalists’ editorial materials, cell phones and computers.The publication has asked for some of its assets to be released so that it can continue to pay staff wages.

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