{"id":33482,"date":"2021-06-27T13:00:13","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T04:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/27\/i-could-hardly-hold-back-the-tears-a-diary-of-apple-dailys-last-week"},"modified":"2021-06-27T13:00:13","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T04:00:13","slug":"i-could-hardly-hold-back-the-tears-a-diary-of-apple-dailys-last-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33482","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I could hardly hold back the tears\u2019: a diary of Apple Daily\u2019s last week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A reporter from the 26-year-old Hong Kong newspaper describes its final days<\/p>\n<p>A Hong Kong police national security operation has forced the closure of the city\u2019s most vocal and pro-democracy newspaper, <em>Apple Daily<\/em>. Its senior executives arrested, companies charged, and accounts frozen, the paper survived for less than a week after hundreds of officers raided the newsroom, accusing it of foreign collusion. Here a reporter from the 26-year-old paper describes the final days.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/27\/i-could-hardly-hold-back-the-tears-a-diary-of-apple-dailys-last-week\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reporter from the 26-year-old Hong Kong newspaper describes its final daysA Hong Kong police national security operation has forced the closure of the city\u2019s most vocal and pro-democracy newspaper, Apple Daily. Its senior executives arrested, compani&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2281,"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":[41,458,50,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-censorship","category-china","category-hong-kong","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\/33482","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\/2281"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33483,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33482\/revisions\/33483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}