State-owned Hong Kong convenience store chain stops selling Apple Daily newspaper, weeks after founder Jimmy Lai arrested under security law

A state-owned convenience store chain in Hong Kong stopped selling the Apple Daily on Friday, more than two weeks after the tabloid-style newspaper’s founder Jimmy Lai Chee-ying was arrested on suspicion of breaching the national security law.Confirming VanGO’s decision to remove the newspaper from its shelves, Ryan Law Wai-kwong, editor-in-chief of Apple Daily, which has been strongly critical of Beijing, said the move would obstruct the free flow of information in Hong Kong.“It would do…

from South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3099192/state-owned-hong-kong-convenience-store-chain-stops-selling