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an independent news office in Hong Kong has been closed for security reasons

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Citizen News was the largest remaining independent news newspaper Hong Kong After Apple Daily closed in June and Stand News last Wednesday.-

The news agency announced the decision on Facebook Saying that it aims to protect the safety of everyone involved. “Unfortunately, the great changes that have taken place in our society over the past two years and the deteriorating media environment have made it impossible for us to carry out our mission without worries,” she wrote.-

“We are in an awkward situation in the middle of a storm. In the face of the crisis, we need to ensure the safety and well-being of everyone on board, ”she added.

Citizen News was founded in 2017 by several veteran Hong Kong journalists and is fully supported by collective funding. The announcement said his site would stop updating from Tuesday and would be removed “after a while.”

The poster news is closed After a search of her office by the National Security Police on Wednesday, it arrested seven people involved in the publication and froze the company’s assets worth approximately $ 61 million ($ 7.8 million). –

Police say the arrests are linked to “smoky” articles published by the newspaper between July 2020 and November 2021.

to Pop star Dennis Ho was also among those arrested and Margaret Ng, a former democracy legislature and prominent lawyer, both former members of the board of directors of the news release. Former Stand News editor-in-chief Chun Boy Quin and acting editor-in-chief Patrick Lem also arrested, according to the Hong Kong Association of Journalists.-

Hong Kong chief executive Kerry Lama defended the raid, saying it had nothing to do with what he wrote.

“It simply came to our notice then. It has nothing to do with journalism or the media, “Lams said on Thursday.

Since Beijing introduced a comprehensive national security law in Hong Kong in 2020, pro-democracy groups have been disbanded, activists and journalists have been arrested, and a number of independent media outlets have been shut down.

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Last summer, Apple Daily, Hong Kong’s largest democracy edition, closed its doors after several journalists were arrested under national security law and millions of dollars in assets were frozen.

Imprisoned media tycoon Jimmy Lai, who founded Apple Daily, received an additional charge last week for “smoky publications” in addition to the charges already imposed on him under the National Security Act.

May 13 months in prison for inciting and participating in the city’s annual candlelight evening in 2020 to commemorate the repression in Tiananmen Square. Authorities have declared the gathering illegal due to coronavirus restrictions. To have already served his prison sentence on other charges.

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CNN creators Wayne Chang, Nectar Gunn, Jaden Sham and Tillie Rayban participated in the report.

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