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June 19, 2021 Ryan Law and Cheung Kim-hung, respectively director and chief executive of Apple Daily, arrested Thursday in the police raid on the headquarters of the independent newspaper, appeared today before a judge who denied them bail.
Judge Victor So justified the decision by saying that there are sufficient reasons to believe that the two leaders "do not continue to commit acts that would endanger national security".
Law and Cheung are accused of colluding with foreign forces to undermine the security of the state, based on the controversial Beijing National Security Act introduced in Hong Kong in late 2020. Law, which in the case of the highly critical Apple Daily against Beijing as well as the local government, it is used for the first time to target an information organ.
The other 3 executives of the newspaper arrested on Thursday during the raid of 500 agents at the newspaper's headquarters were instead granted release yesterday upon payment of the bail.