{"id":26802,"date":"2020-08-10T13:56:30","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T13:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=26802"},"modified":"2020-08-10T13:56:36","modified_gmt":"2020-08-10T13:56:36","slug":"hong-kong-arrests-media-tycoon-newspaper-premises-raided-as-crackdown-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=26802","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong arrests media tycoon, newspaper premises raided as crackdown continues"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The crackdown on dissidents continued in Hong Kong after security operatives arrested media tycoon, Jimmy Lai, who has been accused of \u2018colluding with foreign powers\u2019 in most high-profile arrest yet under new security law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mark Simon, a senior executive at Lai\u2019s Next Media group, said on Twitter on Sunday that the tycoon was \u201cbeing arrested for collusion with foreign powers at this time\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The police confirmed the arrest of seven people aged between 39 and 72.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOffences include collusion with foreign country\/external elements to endanger national security, Article 29 of the NSL\u2026 Investigation is underway,\u201d the force posted on its official Twitter account. Article 29 relates to alleged offences including receiving any kind of support \u2013 directly or indirectly \u2013 from people overseas and carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis sends out a very negative message and, of course, it must have a chilling effect on people who would want to speak out and particularly on the news media,\u201d veteran Democratic Party politician Emily Lau told Al Jazeera<\/a>. \u201cThis is a very, very disturbing development.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This came after Hong Kong\u2019s chief executive Carrie Lam<\/a> and 10 other officials were sanctioned by the United States of America for, \u201cundermining Hong Kong\u2019s autonomy and restricting the freedom of expression or assembly of the citizens of Hong Kong\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sanction was announced on Friday in a statement on the US Treasury\u2019s website which informed that the sanctions are being implemented under an executive order by President Donald Trump issued in mid-July aimed at punishing China over a new sweeping national security law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The crackdown on dissidents continued in Hong Kong after security operatives arrested media tycoon, Jimmy Lai, who has been accused of \u2018colluding with foreign powers\u2019 in most high-profile arrest yet under new security law. Mark Simon, a senior executive at Lai\u2019s Next Media group, said on Twitter on Sunday that the tycoon was \u201cbeing arrested […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nHong Kong arrests media tycoon, newspaper premises raided as crackdown continues » WatchDog Plus Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=26802\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Odofin\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=26802#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"World News\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=11\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Hong Kong arrests media tycoon, newspaper premises raided as crackdown continues\"}]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Hong Kong arrests media tycoon, newspaper premises raided as crackdown continues » WatchDog Plus Media","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=26802","author":"Odofin","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=26802#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"World News","item":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=11"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Hong Kong arrests media tycoon, newspaper premises raided as crackdown continues"}]}]}},"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"Odofin","author_link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?author=2"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=11\" rel=\"category\">World News<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"The crackdown on dissidents continued in Hong Kong after security operatives arrested media tycoon, Jimmy Lai, who has been accused of \u2018colluding with foreign powers\u2019 in most high-profile arrest yet under new security law. Mark Simon, a senior executive at Lai\u2019s Next Media group, said on Twitter on Sunday that the tycoon was \u201cbeing arrested…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26802"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26802"}],"version-history":[{"count":-4,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}