Hong Kong arrests newspaper execs

The Hong Kong police yesterday arrested five executives at an embattled pro-democracy newspaper on suspicion of colluding with foreign powers to violate the Chinese territory’s sweeping national security law. The police said they had arrested five people of a media company on suspicion of “collusion with a foreign country or with external elements to endanger national security”. The five executives work for Apple Daily, a pro-democracy newspaper or its parent company, Next Digital, the newspaper reported. Apple Daily said that Ryan Law, its editor-in-chief, was among those arrested. Next Digital’s founder, Jimmy Lai, is serving a prison sentence for illegal assembly and is facing charges under the national security law, which was imposed last year on Hong Kong by the mainland Chinese government.