BBC World News: Apple Daily announces closure after raids

On 23 June 2021, Hong Kong's leading pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily announced closure as a result of National Security Law.

Speaking to the BBC World News, Lord Chris Patten, the last governor of Hong Kong and patron of Hong Kong Watch said:

"In a vengeful attack on a newspaper, which is not surprising, given the experience of so many refugees from communism supported democracy and the rule of law, they [the Chinese Communist Party] are just determined to turn Hong Kong into a part of the surveillance state in China and it speaks to every believer in freedom and to every journalist and media organisation that this is what the Chinese Communist Party is like, it's a threat to our values and we should recognise as that."