Hong Kong security lawHong Kong's Stand News to shut down after police arrest editors
Police allege 'seditious articles' in online publication incited subversion
Ronson Chan, a Stand News editor and the chairman of the Hong Kong Journalists Association, is taken away by police on Dec. 29. © AP
PAK YIU, Nikkei staff writer
December 29, 2021 11:19 JST
Updated on December 29, 2021 18:51 JST
HONG KONG -- Hong Kong independent news outlet Stand News said on Wednesday that it would halt operations, hours after national security police arrested seven editors and others with ties to the media company over an alleged conspiracy to publish seditious materials and deployed more than 200 officers to search its offices.