Pro-democracy journo arrested

Hong Kong – Hong Kong police arrested the lead opinion writer of Apple Daily on national security grounds as he tried to fly out of the city, local media reported, days after the pro-democracy newspaper was forced to shut down.

Fung Wai-kong, managing editor and chief opinion writer for the paper’s English website, on Sunday became the seventh senior Apple Daily figure detained under a national security law China imposed on Hong Kong last year. –