– were released on police bail pending further investigations. Margaret Ng, pop star Denise Ho, Chow Tat-chi and Christine Fang Stand News board – former democratic legislator and barrister Men were charged with conspiring “to publish and/or reproduce seditious publications,” according Along with Best Pencil (Hong Kong) Limited, the corporate entity behind Stand News, the two Hong Kong laws restrict media coverage of bail hearings. News chief editor Chung Pui-kuen and acting chief editor Patrick Lam. In the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Court denied bail applications for former Stand Security law in the former British colony last year. Raid and arrests website as a sign of further erosion of press freedoms since China imposed a sweeping national Media advocacy groups and some Western governments criticised the Publication’s office, froze its assets and arrested seven current and former senior editors and former board On Thursday, a day after a police raid on the pro-democracy media organization that prompted its closure. To publish seditious materials and denied bail by a court By Clare Jim and Sara Cheng HONG KONG, Dec 30 (Reuters) – Two former senior editors of Hong Kong’s Stand News were charged with conspiring
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