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Beijing's battle to crush Hong Kong's final freedoms

23 June 2021

8:21 AM

23 June 2021

8:21 AM

The Apple Daily was born on 20 June 1995. Its opening editorial was a statement of intent, setting out its stall for what was to follow. ‘We belong to Hong Kong,’’ the paper wrote. ‘We are a newspaper for Hongkongers… If Hong Kong falls, we are not going to survive.’

From this bold start, few would have predicted that the newspaper could face closure just two and a half decades later.

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