Bearing Witness to the End of Hong Kong's Free Press
Supporters hold copies of the final issue of the Apple Daily newspaper in front of the company’s headquarters in Hong Kong on June 24, 2021. (Geovien So/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
My conversation with an intrepid Apple Daily reporter.
For 26 years, the pro-democracy tabloid Apple Daily was a thorn in the side of the Chinese Communist Party. On Thursday June 24, after its founder was jailed, its assets frozen, its offices ransacked by hundreds of police officers, and five of its top editors and executives arrested, the paper printed its very last edition.
The next morning, I spoke to …
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