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Pro-democracy businessman Jimmy Lai Chee-ying is the first prominent person to be arrested under Communist China’s new national security law.
VATICAN CITY — Hong Kong police today arrested Catholic business tycoon Jimmy Lai Chee-ying under the city’s new national security law — the first high-profile casualty of the controversial ruling that Beijing imposed in June.
A leading pro-democracy activist and a strong critic of Beijing’s human-rights policies, Lai was detained for “collusion with foreign powers,” according to Mark Simon, a senior executive of Next Digital, Lai’s media company that publishes Hong Kong’s Apple Daily newspaper.
Following Lai’s arrest on Monday, hundreds of police were sent to Apple Daily’s offices without a search warrant.
The businessman was one of seven people Hong Kong police apprehended for breaching the city’s new national security law, which punishes what China considers to be subversion, secession, terrorism and collusion with foreign forces.
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Chinese Catholic Exec Arrested in Hong Kong for ‘Collusion With Foreign Powers’
VATICAN CITY — Hong Kong police today arrested Catholic business tycoon Jimmy Lai Chee-ying under the city’s new national security law — the first high-profile casualty of the controversial ruling that Beijing imposed in June.
A leading pro-democracy activist and a strong critic of Beijing’s human-rights policies, Lai was detained for “collusion with foreign powers,” according to Mark Simon, a senior executive of Next Digital, Lai’s media company that publishes Hong Kong’s Apple Daily newspaper.
Following Lai’s arrest on Monday, hundreds of police were sent to Apple Daily’s offices without a search warrant.
The businessman was one of seven people Hong Kong police apprehended for breaching the city’s new national security law, which punishes what China considers to be subversion, secession, terrorism and collusion with foreign forces.
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Chinese Catholic Exec Arrested in Hong Kong for ‘Collusion With Foreign Powers’
