The Chinese government has arrested six journalists with the last pro-democracy newspaper operating in Hong Kong and charged them with sedition, the latest move in a crackdown in the once autonomous region, NBC News reports.
Hundreds of police raided the offices of Stand News, dragging six employees, including some members of the senior staff, away to face charges of suspicion of “conspiracy to publish seditious publications.”
In June, Chinese authorities effectively shuttered the other major pro-democracy media outlet in Hong Kong, Apple Daily, by charging its senior management team with a variety charges ranging from corruption to sedition. Earlier this month, government officials removed a monument to the victims of the Tiananmen Square massacre from a Hong Kong university.