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National security law: three Apple Daily executives released on bail, Hong Kong police charge publisher, editor-in-chief with conspiracy to collude with external elements
- The charges come a day after officers raided the homes of top editor Ryan Law and publisher Cheung Kim-hung, as well as three other senior executives, arresting all five
- Associate publisher Chan Pui-man, digital director Cheung Chi-wai and Next Digital chief financial officer Royston Chow were released on Friday night
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Three executives of the Apple Daily tabloid were released on bail on Friday night, a day after they were arrested under the national security law, while their publisher and the editor-in-chief were charged with conspiring to collude with external elements.
It came a day after officers raided the homes of top editor Ryan Law Wai-kwong and publisher Cheung Kim-hung – also the CEO of the paper’s parent company, Next Digital – as well as three other senior executives, arresting all five.
Law and Cheung are slated to appear at West Kowloon Court on Saturday morning.
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The other three executives arrested on Thursday – associate publisher Chan Pui-man, digital director Cheung Chi-wai and Next Digital chief financial officer Royston Chow Tat-kuen – were released on bail, after being detained for more than 40 hours, pending further investigation.
Leaving Tseung Kwan O Police Station shortly after 10pm in the company of her husband, and lawyer, Chan said she was sad that two of her colleagues had been charged, and hoped they would be bailed as soon as possible.
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