[News] Hong Kong: two journalists from the opposition media Stand News arrested for sedition

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Two of those arrested Wednesday in a police operation against pro-democracy news website Stand News in Hong Kong were charged Thursday with "sedition," police said. The National Security Police "formally charged two men, aged 34 and 52, and an online media company, with conspiracy to make a seditious publication," it said in a statement without providing the identities of the two people. According to local media reports, the two were editor-in-chief Patrick Lam and his predecessor Chung Pui-kuen, who were arrested on Wednesday along with five other people linked to Stand News. The five others "remain in custody for further investigation," police said. China denounces "irresponsible" criticism Stand News, founded in 2014 and very active during the major anti-government protests in hong kongen 2019, announced on Wednesday that it was closing and firing all its employees, with its assets now frozen by the authorities. VIDEO. Hong Kong: pro-democracy media outlet Stand News forcibly shut down by Chinese police Hong Kong's national security police chief Steve Li had accused the site on Wednesday of publishing "seditious" articles and blog posts in the form of "malicious allegations without any factual basis" between July 2020 and November 2021. The crackdown drew widespread international condemnation. "Journalism is not sedition," said U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday, who called on China and Hong Kong authorities to "stop attacking free and independent media. China denounces for its part "irresponsible" criticism of Western countries.

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