{"id":33417,"date":"2021-06-24T16:27:30","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T07:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2021\/jun\/24\/large-crowds-queue-in-hong-kong-for-final-apple-daily-edition-video"},"modified":"2021-06-24T16:27:30","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T07:27:30","slug":"large-crowds-queue-in-hong-kong-for-final-apple-daily-edition-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33417","title":{"rendered":"Large crowds queue in Hong Kong for final Apple Daily edition \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Large crowds have queued in Hong Kong to buy the final edition of the Apple Daily. The closure of Hong Kong&#8217;s largest pro-democracy newspaper comes one week after five high-profile staff were arrested, the company&#8217;s office raided and millions of dollars in assets frozen in Beijing&#8217;s crackdown on the media outlet. Sales of the newspaper began at 1am with some vendors selling out of copies within hours<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/24\/hong-kong-apple-daily-queue-final-edition-newspaper\">\u2018Painful farewell\u2019: Hongkongers queue for hours to buy final Apple Daily edition<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/23\/the-blackest-day-apple-dailys-demise-comes-as-no-surprise\">Hong Kong\u2019s Apple Daily, symbol of pro-democracy movement, to close<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/23\/hong-kong-apple-daily-symbol-of-pro-democracy-movement-to-close\">\u2018The blackest day\u2019: Apple Daily\u2019s demise comes as no surprise<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/23\/timeline-of-events-leading-to-the-closure-of-hong-kongs-apple-daily\">Timeline of events leading to the closure of Hong Kong\u2019s Apple Daily<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2021\/jun\/24\/large-crowds-queue-in-hong-kong-for-final-apple-daily-edition-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Large crowds have queued in Hong Kong to buy the final edition of the Apple Daily. The closure of Hong Kong&#8217;s largest pro-democracy newspaper comes one week after five high-profile staff were arrested, the company&#8217;s office raided and millions of dollar&#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":[41,50,48,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-press-freedom"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33417","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=33417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33418,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33417\/revisions\/33418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}