Editor of shuttered Hong Kong pro-democracy newspaper arrested

• Journalist Fung Wai-kong's arrest comes days after police arrested an Apple Daily columnist, who publishes under the name Li Ping, for allegedly "conspiring to collude with foreign countries or foreign forces to endanger national security" under the law.

Of note: Authorities have increasingly been relying on the law, which provides the government with broad power to limit people's political freedom and to arrest several journalists at the news outlet, founded by imprisoned tycoon Jimmy Lai.

• Under the law, the authorities charged Lai and other pro-democracy activists after they organized a massive protest in 2019.
• Hong Kong police recently cited media articles as potentially violating the law when they held five Apple Daily executives.