Some 500 police officers raided the offices of Apple Daily, Hong Kong’s biggest and only mass-circulation, pro-democracy newspaper. Authorities seized reporters’ computers and cellphones, and arrested editors and executives. Chris Yeung, chair of the Hong Kong Journalists Association, talks with The World’s Marco Werman about the future of a free press in Hong Kong.
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