The communist regime’s tightening grip on Hong Kong entered into a new phase after police arrested media mogul Jimmy Lai and raided the newsroom of his media outlet, stoking fears that Beijing is intent on extinguishing press freedoms.
Lai, a strident critic of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), was arrested on Aug. 10, along with his two sons, on allegations of collusion with foreign forces under the city’s new national security law enacted by Beijing. Later that day, more than 200 police officers raided the newsroom of Lai’s newspaper Apple Daily, the city’s largest pro-democracy outlet, and collected 25 boxes of evidence.
