Hong Kong police have arrested the former executive editor-in-chief of the now-closed Apple Daily newspaper, according to reports, the latest arrest in a national security investigation of media tycoon Jimmy Lai’s pro-democracy tabloid.
Police, who typically do not identify individuals under investigation, said in a statement on Wednesday they had arrested a 51-year-old former male newspaper editor on suspicion of “conspiring to collude with foreign countries or foreign forces to endanger national security”.
A police source of the AFP news agency identified the detained man as Lam Man-chung, the Apple Daily’s former executive editor-in-chief.
Lam is the ninth employee of the Apple Daily arrested under a sweeping national security law that Beijing imposed on Hong Kong last year after huge pro-democracy protests.
There was no immediate comment by Next Digital, the media group which published the Apple Daily.
