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⚖️#FreeHKJournalists
On this day last year, #AppleDaily published its newspaper for the last time and ceased all operations immediately afterwards. A number of senior executives have been arrested and detained on political grounds and lost their freedom.
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One year ago, #CCPChina🇨🇳 forcefully shut down Apple Daily, a newspaper that provided a voice for HongKongers.
The forced closure of #AppleDaily🍎 effectively marks the death of press freedom in #HongKong. twitter.com/Stand_with_HK/…
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The Assault on Apple Daily: The demise of Jimmy Lai’s newspaper shows how far China will go to bring Hong Kong into line.
Deep dive into #AppleDaily🍎’s history, events that led to its closure and the effect it had on Hong Kong. One for the history books.
bloomberg.com/features/2022-…
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Surreal moment: @chungchingkwong holding the final #AppleDaily for the first time in London.
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"These arrests are nothing short of an all-out assault on the freedom of the press in #HongKong, coming just one day after #JimmyLai and six former #AppleDaily journalists received similar charges," said
@hk_watch CEO @benedictrogers
hongkongwatch.org/all-posts/2021…
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Jimmy Lai, Hong Kong’s Imprisoned Media Tycoon
The #AppleDaily founder has spent more than 300 days in jail this year, making him the highest-profile victim of China’s relentless campaign to bring #HongKong to heel.
#Bloomberg50
#StandWithHongKong
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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The Golden Pen of Freedom, the annual press freedom award of the World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), has been awarded to publisher #JimmyLai and the staff of the #AppleDaily newsroom in Hong Kong.
#FightForFreedom #FreeJimmyLai
wan-ifra.org/2021/12/golden…
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Collection News《果靈·聞庫》is a community led project to archive historical #AppleDaily🍎 articles with images and videos, using a great web interface.
Example link to an article on Yuen Long mob attack from 2019.7.21, with original text, video, images.
collection.news/appledaily/art…
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Stand News reports that Man-chung Lam, former executive chief editor at #AppleDaily🍎, has been arrested by Hong Kong's National Security Police 🇨🇳 and charged with “colluding with foreign forces”.
警國安處拘前《蘋果日報》執總林文宗 指控串謀勾結境外勢力
thestandnews.com/politics/%E6%B…
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#IPAC 🇩🇪 co-chair @MargareteBause MdB asks the German Federal Foreign Office what steps it has taken to address the "massive encroachment of press freedoms" in the forced shut down of #AppleDaily, Hong Kong's last remaining opposition newspaper.
Government response 👇
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#IPAC 🇪🇺 MEP @fxbellamy praises the courage of journalists at Hong Kong newspaper #AppleDaily, forced to close after being targeted under the National Security Law.
"The Chinese Communist Party is methodically dismantling any democratic opposition to its totalitarian project."
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EU Parliament has overwhelmingly passed a joint-resolution on #HK #AppleDaily calling for: emergency visas for journalists in #HK, expansion of #Erasmus places for HKers as part of a #Lifeboat scheme, extension of EU funding for HK media, & #sanctions. hongkongwatch.org/all-posts/2021…
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Four leading newspapers from the Nordic countries join in a protest against China’s violation of freedom of the press in Hong Kong. The protest follows the closure of #AppleDaily🍎 newspaper and their joint letter published today on #CCP100🇨🇳 anniversary.
politiken.dk/udland/art8271…
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"If Apple Daily still existed, would the front page look something like this?"
Some people handed out this #AppleDaily🍎 art print flyer, imagining what the front page might have looked like today on July 1st 2021, if Apple Daily were to exist.
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Mini-#AppleDaily🍎 final editions found their audience.
Source: 模型先生 Mr.MODELER (FB)
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Shockingly sad.
I’m the aftermath of #AppleDaily’s forced closure, the brilliant @StandNewsHK self censors in a bid for survival.
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Make your own #AppleDaily🍎✊ twitter.com/badiucao/statu…
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Our co-founder and Chief Executive @benedictrogers talking on Euronews about the closure of #AppleDaily and the death of media freedom in #HongKong twitter.com/benedictrogers…
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The last evening of #AppleDaily🍎
It is the worst of times, but it is also the best of times. Hong Kong is so beautiful that evening.
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The spirit of resistance must live on.
#AppleDaily🍎 twitter.com/surrealhk_/sta…
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Today 31 European Parliamentarians in a letter coordinated by @EnginEroglu_FW have written to Carrie Lam to condemn the closing of #AppleDaily and the arrest of journalists under then #NSL, describing it as 'an assault on the freedom of the press in HK'. hongkongwatch.org/all-posts/2021…
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#AppleDaily & press freedom in #HongKong are the latest victims of authoritarianism & the #NationalSecurityLaw. Appeasement is getting us nowhere. JW
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Short documentary of the last day at #AppleDaily🍎 as they printed a record 1,000,000 newspapers.
Hong Kongers gathered outside their headquarters to pay tribute to the 26-year old newspaper that have always sided with the people.
Source: Stand News (youtu.be/G30iliKl6rY)
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中国政府の野蛮な行為を非難し、リンゴ日報のジャーナリズムに連帯する。
香港国家安全維持法制定から1年足らず。
1年あれば、権力が表現の自由を踏みつぶせることを肝に銘じる。
#AppleDaily
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Thank you, #AppleDaily🍎
Photo: @StandNewsHK
