Hong Kong police arrest media tycoon Jimmy Lai under national security law

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• Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai became the highest-profile arrest under a new national security law on Monday.
• Lai, 71, has been one of the most prominent democracy activists in the Chinese-ruled city and an ardent critic of Beijing.
• His arrest comes amid Beijing's crackdown against pro-democracy opposition in the city.
• It "bears out the worst fears that Hong Kong's National Security Law would be used to suppress critical pro-democracy opinion and restrict press freedom," said Steven Butler, the Committee to Protect Journalists' Asia programme coordinator.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai became the highest-profile arrest under a new national security law on Monday, detained over suspected collusion with foreign forces as scores of police searched the offices of his Apple Daily newspaper.

Lai, 71, has been one of the most prominent democracy activists in the Chinese-ruled city and an ardent critic of Beijing, which imposed the sweeping new law on Hong Kong on June 30, drawing condemnation from Western countries.

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