HONG KONG—Hong Kong police arrested five directors of the Apple Daily newspaper early on Thursday morning, including its editor-in-chief, the media outlet said, in the latest blow to one of the few remaining independent newspapers left in the former British colony that continues to be critical of the Chinese regime. The Apple Daily is owned by jailed dissident Jimmy Lai.
Hong Kong Police’s National Security Department said in a statement that five directors of a company had been arrested on suspicion of collusion with a foreign country or with external elements to endanger China’s national security under the widely protested “national security law” imposed on the city from Beijing.
