{"id":21582,"date":"2020-08-11T11:31:23","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T02:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/11\/hong-kongs-apple-daily-vows-to-fight-on-after-arrest-of-jimmy-lai"},"modified":"2020-08-11T17:44:05","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T08:44:05","slug":"hong-kongs-apple-daily-vows-to-fight-on-after-arrest-of-jimmy-lai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21582","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong rallies around Apple Daily after arrest of founder Jimmy Lai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newspaper prints 500,000 copies, up from 100,000, as readers queue for hours to buy pro-democracy tabloid<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong residents have rallied behind the pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily after its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/10\/hong-kong-media-tycoon-jimmy-lai-arrested-over-alleged-foreign-collusion\">founder Jimmy Lai was detained<\/a> under a controversial national security law being used to crack down on dissent.<\/p>\n<p>Residents lined up around 2am on Tuesday, hours after the daily tabloid\u2019s offices were raided by police following Lai\u2019s arrest, to buy copies of the paper in a show of support. Many purchased the paper in bulk, leaving notes in convenience stores urging others to take a copy. Others left stacks of the paper on stairs or in their apartment compounds. One reader wrote to the paper: \u201cEven if Apple Daily only publishes a bundle of blank sheets, we will be buying all of them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/11\/hong-kongs-apple-daily-vows-to-fight-on-after-arrest-of-jimmy-lai\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newspaper prints 500,000 copies, up from 100,000, as readers queue for hours to buy pro-democracy tabloidHong Kong residents have rallied behind the pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily after its founder Jimmy Lai was detained under a controversial nati&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,48,238,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-hong-kong","category-media","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21582"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21593,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21582\/revisions\/21593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}