Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam says Stand News arrests not aimed at media industry

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HONG KONG - A Hong Kong police raid on a pro-democracy media organisation and the arrest of seven people connected with it was aimed at seditious activity not the suppression of the media, the city g

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.

 

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