{"id":33207,"date":"2021-06-17T20:34:05","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T11:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/17\/worst-of-times-hong-kong-apple-daily-media-defiant-amid-police-crackdown"},"modified":"2021-06-17T20:34:05","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T11:34:05","slug":"worst-of-times-hong-kong-media-defiant-amid-police-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33207","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Worst of times\u2019: Hong Kong media defiant amid police crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple Daily hits back after executives arrested in second raid on pro-democracy paper\u2019s newsroom<\/p>\n<p>Apple Daily\u2019s journalism has ruffled feathers since its establishment in 1995. A populist Hong Kong tabloid owned by Jimmy Lai, a pro-Trump media mogul and now jailed activist, the paper is fond of sensational crime stories, celebrity gossip, and investigations into government scandals and corruption. It\u2019s a vocal supporter of the pro-democracy movement, a thorn in the side of police, and has become <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/asia\/hong-kong-protests-police-metro-b716408.html\">a symbol<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/11\/hong-kongs-apple-daily-vows-to-fight-on-after-arrest-of-jimmy-lai\">resistance against Hong Kong\u2019s crackdown<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong\u2019s police commissioner has accused it of creating hatred. Pro-Beijing media have called for it to be shut down. Lai has said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/15\/the-press-has-to-go-on-hong-kong-media-tycoon-jimmy-lai-defies-beijing\">the paper is on the right side of history<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/17\/worst-of-times-hong-kong-apple-daily-media-defiant-amid-police-crackdown\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple Daily hits back after executives arrested in second raid on pro-democracy paper\u2019s newsroomApple Daily\u2019s journalism has ruffled feathers since its establishment in 1995. A populist Hong Kong tabloid owned by Jimmy Lai, a pro-Trump media mogul and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"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":[41,50,48,238,671,672,54,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-media","category-newspapers","category-newspapers-magazines","category-press-freedom","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33207","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\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33208,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33207\/revisions\/33208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}