China supports Hong Kong’s arrest of media tycoon Jimmy Lai

Published August 10, 2020 8:19pm

Media mogul Jimmy Lai Chee-ying, founder of Apple Daily, is detained by the national security unit in Hong Kong, China on Monday, August 10, 2020. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu

BEIJING — China supports the arrest of media tycoon Jimmy Lai by Hong Kong police, state media said on Monday, stressing the need to "severely punish" those who collude with foreign forces to endanger national security.

A spokesman for China's Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office told the Xinhua agency that Lai was a representative of people who were "anti-China, anti-Hong Kong" and who were a danger that must be removed before there could be peace in Hong Kong. — Reuters

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