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Apple Daily ex-staff plead guilty to collusion in Hong Kong

Six former staff of Hong Kong's defunct Apple Daily newspaper have pleaded guilty to conspiring to collude with foreign forces [File: Tyrone Siu/Reuters]

Six former staff of a Hong Kong newspaper that was forced to close under the Chinese territory’s sweeping national security law have pleaded guilty to conspiring to collude with foreign forces.

The former Apple Daily employees on Tuesday admitted to conspiring to ask a foreign country or organisation to sanction “or engage in other hostile activities” against Hong Kong and China after prosecutors agreed to drop sedition charges.

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