The arrest of Jimmy Lai and shocking raid on his Apple Daily newspaper office was designed to intimidate journalists
Even so, the scope of the arrests and the ridiculously ostentatious raid and search of journalist material was shocking. It was obviously intended not just to thwart Lai and his media group, but to intimidate Hong Kong’s entire community of journalists and hammer a few nails in the coffin of press freedom. It might not succeed, at least on its own.
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