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Jimmy Lai’s Arrest Ends Hong Kong Autonomy

Newspaper’s office raided

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Aug 10, 2020
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The last vestiges of Hong Kong’s autonomy under the One Country Two Systems formula have been swept away with the arrest today of entrepreneur Jimmy Lai, the proprietor of Apple Daily, the leading media critic of the government and Beijing, along with his sons and members of his staff.

More than one hundred police also swooped on the offices of the paper…

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