Police have not released their identities, but local media claim they are the site’s editors. It had to cease its activities.
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Two people were indicted in Hong Kong for “sedition” Thursday, December 30, after a police operation carried out the day before against the pro-democracy news site Stand News. National security police “officially indicted two men, aged 34 and 52, and an online media company, with conspiring to carry out a seditious publication”, announced the police in a statement, without providing the identities of the two people. According to local media, these are the editors of News stand. The site had to cease operations and the staff were made redundant.
More than 200 police officers had been mobilized to search the headquarters of the online media in Kwun Tong district and the homes of those arrested, the authorities said, adding that the police had been authorized by a court to seize journalistic material. Stand News has been the target in recent months of sharp criticism from the Hong Kong authorities. The territory’s security official, Chris Tang, accused him in early December of releasing information “biased, defamatory and demonized” on living conditions in prisons.