Apple Daily staff plead guilty to collusion in HKong

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(22 Nov 2022) • RESTRICTION SUMMARY: • ASSOCIATED PRESS • ARCHIVE: Hong Kong - 17 June 2021 • 1. Wide of police arresting Cheung Kim-hung, former CEO of Next Digital, walking out of entrance of Next Digital building • 2. Wide of police arresting Chan Pui-man, former associate publisher of Apple Daily • 3. Tilt down of Next Digital building, headquarters of Apple Daily • 4. Wide of police outside Next Digital building • ASSOCIATED PRESS • ARCHIVE: Hong Kong - 26 April 2021 • 5. Ryan Law, former chief editor of Apple Daily, at his desk • 6. Various of Law (man in blue shirt and white mask) having meeting with staff • ASSOCIATED PRESS • ARCHIVE: Hong Kong - 23 June 2021 • 7. Lam Man-chung (man in black/grey shirt and black mask), former executive editor-in-chief, proof-reading the last edition of Apple Daily • 8. Lam and in newsroom with Chan pulling down face mask, UPSOUND (Cantonese), Chan Pui-man: You've done a great job everyone. • 9. Wide of Lam saying thank you to employees for staying till the last edition of Apple Daily • 10. SOUNDBITE (Cantonese) Chan Pui-man, former associate publisher of Apple Daily: • Two things – thanks to our colleagues, and thanks to the people. • ASSOCIATED PRESS • ARCHIVE: Hong Kong - 24 June 2021 • ++NIGHT SHOTS++ • 11. Wide of last edition of Apple Daily coming out of printing press and pan to printing staff checking it • 12. Various of last edition of Apple Daily coming out of printing press • 13. Various of workers stacking newspaper for delivery • 14. Wide of staff holding last edition of Apple Daily outside headquarters • 15. Apple Daily supporters taking free copies at main entrance • 16. Close of exterior of Apple Daily headquarters with logo Next Digital and staff in window waving phone lights • STORYLINE: • Six former executives of a now-defunct Hong Kong pro-democracy newspaper on Tuesday pleaded guilty to a collusion charge under the National Security Law that has silenced and jailed most opposition voices in the southern Chinese territory. • The staff members of Apple Daily were arrested last year during a crackdown on dissent after Beijing imposed the sweeping security law in response to the widespread anti-government protests in 2019. • They were charged with conspiracy to commit collusion with foreign forces to endanger national security. • The law criminalizes acts of succession, subversion, terrorism, and collusion with foreign forces. Its maximum penalty is life imprisonment. • Publisher Cheung Kim-hung, associated publisher Chan Pui-man, Editor-in-Chief Ryan Law, Executive Editor-in-Chief Lam Man-chung, and editorial writers Fung Wai-kong and Yeung Ching-kee, admitted they had conspired with the newspaper's founder Jimmy Lai to call for an imposition of sanctions or blockade, or engage in other hostile activities against Hong Kong or China. • Prosecutors alleged three companies related to Apple Daily were also involved in the conspiracy from July 1, 2020 - the day after the National Security Law was introduced - to the day of the paper's last print edition, June 24, 2021. • Lai and the three companies were expected to plead not guilty to their charge and their trial is expected to start on Dec. 1. • If convicted, Lai faces life imprisonment. If the companies are convicted, they could be fined and the proceeds obtained from the crime confiscated. • Police took away hard drives and laptops as evidence in a raid at Apple Daily's offices in June 2021, sending shockwaves across the city's media. • Hong Kong fell more than 60 places to 148th place in Reporters Without Borders’ latest World Press Freedom Index released in May. • Clients are reminded: • • Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork • Twitter: / ap_archive • Facebook: / aparchives • Instagram: / apnews • • • You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...

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