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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Kanis Leung

6 Apple Daily staff plead guilty to collusion in Hong Kong

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Six former staffers of Hong Kong’s now-defunct pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily and its parent company Next Digital have pleaded guilty to foreign collusion on Tuesday in a landmark national security case.

They were arrested last year and charged with collusion with foreign forces in an attempt to endanger the contentious national security law that China had imposed in 2019.

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