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Another Hong Kong news outlet to close amid crackdown on dissent
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A Hong Kong online news site said Sunday that it will cease operations in light of deteriorating press freedoms, days after police raided a separate pro-democracy news outlet, arresting seven.
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Hong Kong news outlet to close amid crackdown on dissent
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Another Hong Kong news outlet to close amid crackdown on dissent
Stand News said on Wednesday that it will immediately close down and lay off all of its staff, after the city’s national security police raided its office and arrested seven people with ties to the publication for allegedly committing sedition.
Hong Kong pro-democracy media outlet Stand News said Wednesday it will close after a police raid and arrests of seven current and former staff members, in the latest blow to the city's rapidly-shrink…
Hong Kong pro-democracy media outlet Stand News has shut down after national security police raided its office and arrested seven people associated with the publication on Wednesday. It's yet another blow to diminishing press freedoms in the city.
Hong Kong pro-democracy media outlet Stand News shut down after police raided its office, froze its assets and arrested senior staff on grounds of sedition.
Pro-democracy website Stand News has been forcibly shut down by Hong Kong police as Beijing continues its authoritarian crackdown on the once-free, former British Crown colony....
In Hong Kong, authorities from the police's national security department arrested half a dozen senior staff members, confiscated boxes and closed one of the last pro-democracy outlets, Stand News.
The independent Hong Kong news site Citizen News said it will be shutting down on Tuesday, citing the deteriorating media environment in the city and the need to protect its staff.
Hong Kong's CitizenNews announced late Sunday that it will shut down to "ensure the safety of everyone", three days after the city's national security police raided another independent online news ou…
By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — A Hong Kong online news site says it would cease operations in light of deteriorating press freedoms, days after police raided and arrested seven people for sedition at a separate pro-democracy news outlet.
The Hong Kong news site Citizen News announced on Facebook on Sunday that it would cease publishing on Tuesday, just days after a different news platform was raided by police — the third pro-democracy news
Pro-democracy news site Citizen News said its decision to shut down came in response to the recent closure of Stand News. It is the third pro-democracy publication to cease operations in recent months.
Hong Kong independent online publication Citizen News said its decision to shut down was set off by the closure of pro-democracy media outlet Stand News last week.
A Hong Kong online news site said Sunday that it will cease operations in light of deteriorating press freedoms, days after police raided a separate pro-democracy news outlet, arresting seven.
Citizen News said that it will cease operations from Tuesday in the face of a “deteriorating media environment,” becoming the third news outlet to shut down in recent months as Hong Kong’s national security police have ramped up pressure on the city’s once-vibrant media industry.
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