overnment's leader said on Thursday .
The raid was the latest crackdown on the media and on dissent in general in the former British colony since China imposed a toughin the city last year aimed at putting an end to months of pro-democracy protests. Set up in 2014 as a non-profit organisation, Stand News was the most prominent remaining pro-democracy publication in Hong Kong after a national security investigation this year led to the
Hong Kong returned to Chinese rule in 1997 with the promise that wide-ranging individual rights, including a free press, would be protected.