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| Subject: Defying Barbaric China, Hong Kongers rush to buy pro-democracy newspaper Tue Aug 11, 2020 6:10 am | |
| Hong Kongers rushed to buy pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily on Tuesday in a show of support for its owner, who was arrested a day earlier as police rounded up critics of China. A crackdown on dissent in Hong Kong has gathered pace since China imposed a sweeping security law in June, with opposition politicians disqualified and activists arrested for social media posts. The moves have provoked outrage in the West and fear for millions who last year took to the streets to protest communist China's tightening grip on the semi-autonomous city. In one of the most dramatic days of the crackdown, media tycoon Jimmy Lai was among 10 people detained under the new law on Monday as around 200 police officers searched the newsroom of his tabloid, which is unapologetically critical of Beijing. In a show of solidarity for Lai, people in the city rushed to buy Tuesday's Apple Daily, with the newspaper saying it had upped its print run to 550,000 from its normal circulation of 70,000. One restaurant owner bought 50 copies at a news stand in the commercial district of Mong Kok, saying he planned to give them away for free. "Since the government doesn't allow Apple Daily to survive, then we as Hong Kongers have to save it ourselves," the man, who gave his surname as Ng, told AFP.
http://www.digitaljournal.com/news/world/defying-china-hong-kongers-rush-to-buy-pro-democracy-newspaper/article/576166
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