Published: June 24th, 2021,
Last updated: September 15th, 2022
Hong Kong loses another opposition voice. The daily Apple Daily will cease production today, 26 years after it was founded. The online offering of the tabloid, which had taken a critical stance on the growing influence of the Communist Party in the metropolis, is also affected by the shutdown. Parent company Next Digital is drawing the consequences of the unprecedented crackdown by authorities on freedom of the press in Hong Kong (more on China.Table). The security bureau has frozen around US$2.3 million of the Apple Daily’s operating budget, pushing it to the brink of inability to act.