Hong Kong Publisher Jimmy Lai Arrested Under New National-Security Law

Jimmy Lai, the outspoken publisher of Hong Kong’s preferred professional-democracy newspaper Apple Daily, was arrested on suspicion of foreign collusion underneath a new nationwide-protection regulation, widening Beijing’s crackdown on the former British colony.

Police arrested Mr. Lai at his home Monday morning and informed him he faced nationwide-protection rates, according to Mark Simon, an government at his corporation. His two sons and 4 staff from his publishing corporation ended up also arrested. In a assertion, Hong Kong police claimed at the very least 9 men and women…