Hong Kong police charge two from pro-democracy news outlet with sedition
Stand News said in a statement that it would cease operations and had laid off all of its staff.
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Stand News said in a statement that it would cease operations and had laid off all of its staff.
The mission statement of Hong Kong-based Stand News declared that it “strives to safeguard Hong Kong’s core values of democracy, human rights, rule of law and justice”.
A Hong Kong court on Thursday charged two former editors for a pro-democracy media outlet with sedition and denied them bail.
Hong Kong police have formally charged two people from an online pro-democracy news outlet with sedition, a day after the outlet said it would cease operations following a police raid on its office and seven arrests
China has tightened its control of Hong Kong since massive and often violent pro-democracy protests engulfed the financial hub in 2019, using a sweeping national security law to clamp down on dissent.