{"id":33212,"date":"2021-06-17T19:45:26","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T10:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2021\/jun\/17\/hong-kong-apple-daily-raid-targeted-conspiracy-claims-security-chief-video"},"modified":"2021-06-17T19:45:26","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T10:45:26","slug":"hong-kong-apple-daily-raid-targeted-conspiracy-claims-security-chief-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33212","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong Apple Daily raid targeted &#8216;conspiracy&#8217;, claims security chief \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong&#8217;s security chief, John Lee, accused the five Apple Daily directors arrested on Thursday of using &#8216;journalistic work as a tool to endanger national security&#8217;.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lee said the five were arrested on suspicion of collusion with foreign countries or external elements to invite sanctions or other hostile activities. In a significant escalation in&nbsp;the government\u2019s moves to rein in the Hong Kong press, Apple Daily&#8217;s newsroom and offices were searched and HK$18m (US $2.3m) in assets frozen<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/17\/hong-kong-police-arrest-editor-in-chief-of-apple-daily-newspaper-in-morning-raids\">Hong Kong police arrest editor-in-chief of Apple Daily newspaper in raids<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/02\/no-political-story-allowed-hong-kong-broadcaster-falls-silent-on-sensitive-subjects\">\u2018No political story allowed\u2019: Hong Kong broadcaster falls silent on sensitive subjects<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/30\/controversial-hong-kong-national-security-law-comes-into-effect\">Controversial Hong Kong national security law comes into effect<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2021\/jun\/17\/hong-kong-apple-daily-raid-targeted-conspiracy-claims-security-chief-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong&#8217;s security chief, John Lee, accused the five Apple Daily directors arrested on Thursday of using &#8216;journalistic work as a tool to endanger national security&#8217;.&nbsp;Lee said the five were arrested on suspicion of collusion with foreign countrie&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"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":[41,50,48,671,54,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-newspapers","category-press-freedom","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\/33212","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33213,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33212\/revisions\/33213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}