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Hong Kong Newspaper Prints 5x Daily Copies After Police Raid

Charlotte Pence Bond
Hong Kong Newspaper Prints 5x Daily Copies After Police Raid
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After Hong Kong newspaper Apple Daily was raided by Hong Kong police on Thursday, the publication has increased its production and printed 500,000 copies of its newspaper in an act of defiance against the government crackdown.

Earlier this week, five newspaper executives and editors at Apple Daily newspaper were taken into custody under Hong Kong’s national security law, as reported by NPR.

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