Six former staff of Hong Kong newspaper plead guilty to conspiracy to collude

Six Apple Daily execs plead guilty to collusion in Hong Kong

HONG KONG: Six former executives of a now-defunct Hong Kong pro-democracy newspaper on Tuesday pleaded guilty to a collusion charge under a national security law that has silenced and jailed most opposition voices in the southern Chinese territory.The staff members of Apple Daily were arrested last year during a crackdown on dissent after Beijing imposed the sweeping law in response to widespread anti-government protests in 2019. They were charg…

Apple Daily newspaper staff admit collusion over Hong Kong protests on eve of Jimmy Lai trial

Six former employees of a pro-democracy newspaper have pleaded guilty to colluding with foreign forces amid mass protests in Hong Kong in 2019. The conviction of the five men and one woman, including Cheung Kim-hung, the former publisher of the now defunct Apple Daily newspaper, and its associate pu

Hong Kong: Six from pro-democracy tabloid plead guilty to foreign collusion

Six senior employees of the defunct pro-democracy tabloid Apple Daily in Hong Kong pleaded guilty to conspiring with foreign forces on Tuesday. Their convictions were a result of a historic case in which Beijing's broad national security statute, which was implemented in the city in 2020 to quell dissent, was for the first time applied against a journalistic organisation and its workers. They could receive a maximum sentence of life in prison.  

6 Apple Daily staff plead guilty to collusion in Hong Kong

HONG KONG (AP) — Six former executives of a now-defunct Hong Kong pro-democracy newspaper on Tuesday pleaded guilty to a collusion charge under the National Security Law that has silenced and jailed most opposition voices in the southern Chinese terr

Six former staffers of Hong Kong’s Apple Daily plead guilty to foreign collusion

Prosecutors accuse Apple Daily’s staffers of implementing conspiracy against the government

Apple Daily ex-staff plead guilty to collusion in Hong Kong

Six former employees of pro-democracy newspaper admit conspiring to solicit sanctions against China.