US EditionSix former staff of Hong Kong newspaper plead guilty to conspiracy to collude
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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.
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