Commentary
Let us go back in time to the world of 2020 and 2021 in Hong Kong to the raids of Next Digital, the parent company of Apple Daily and Next Magazine, in Cheung Kwan O on Aug. 10, 2020, and June 17, 2021, when more than 300 and 500 police turned up to clamp down on freedom and democracy, it was more than surreal. The core management team of Apple Daily was arrested and has been detained for almost two years: the CEO, associate publisher, editor-in-chief, deputy editor-in-chief, English chief editor, and political editor are all detained without bail. The founder of Next Media, Jimmy Lai, has been detained for the longest, and he might be imprisoned for the rest of his life.
