{"id":33389,"date":"2021-06-23T21:39:02","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T12:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/23\/hong-kong-apple-daily-symbol-of-pro-democracy-movement-to-close"},"modified":"2021-06-23T23:19:25","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T14:19:25","slug":"hong-kongs-apple-daily-symbol-of-pro-democracy-movement-to-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33389","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong\u2019s Apple Daily, symbol of pro-democracy movement, to close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tabloid founded by Jimmy Lai and targeted by police raid last week will print final edition on Thursday<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/23\/the-blackest-day-apple-dailys-demise-comes-as-no-surprise\">\u2018The blackest day\u2019: Apple Daily\u2019s demise comes as no surprise<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hong Kong\u2019s largest pro-democracy newspaper, Apple Daily, will shut down online at midnight on Wednesday and print its final edition on Thursday, in a move observers fear signals the death knell for press freedom in the territory. <\/p>\n<p>The paper and its activist founder, Jimmy Lai, had become symbols of the pro-democracy movement and a thorn in the side of Hong Kong\u2019s government and police,<strong> <\/strong>making it a prime target in the government\u2019s efforts to stifle Hong Kong\u2019s media. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/23\/hong-kong-apple-daily-symbol-of-pro-democracy-movement-to-close\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tabloid founded by Jimmy Lai and targeted by police raid last week will print final edition on Thursday\u2018The blackest day\u2019: Apple Daily\u2019s demise comes as no surpriseHong Kong\u2019s largest pro-democracy newspaper, Apple Daily, will shut down online at midni&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":297,"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":[41,50,48,238,54,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-media","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\/33389","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\/297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33389"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33399,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33389\/revisions\/33399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}