Six arrested in Hong Kong over ‘seditious publication’

  Hong Kong authorities arrested six current and former staff of local news outlet Stand News on Wednesday on colonial-era charges of “seditious publication”, amid international alarm about the city’s press freedoms. Police said more than 200 uniformed and plainclothes police were deployed to search the publication’s office in the Kwun Tong district. An AFP reporter saw Stand News editor-in-chief Patrick Lam being led into the news outlet’s office building in handcuffs. Stand News is […]