Six Apple Daily staff plead guilty to collusion in Hong Kong
The staff members of Apple Daily were arrested last year during a crackdown on dissent.
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The staff members of Apple Daily were arrested last year during a crackdown on dissent.
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 territory.
CRACKDOWN ON DISSENT: The prosecution had shelved sedition charges against the six in exchange for the defendants pleading guilty to ‘conspiring’ with Jimmy Lai/ AP, HONG KONG
The six defendants likely made the pleas in the hope of lighter sentences, according to a fellow journalist.
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