Rebecca Davis editorA senior journalist at Hong Kong’s recently shuttered pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily has been arrested at the airport attempting to leave the city, according to local reports.Editorial writer Fung Wai-kong was halted Sunday and arrested on suspicion of “conspiring to collude with foreign countries or foreign sources to endanger national security,” a crime punishable by up to life in prison via the city’s Beijing-imposed security law.
Fung was said to be leaving for Britain, according to local reports.Local police do not publicly identify those they detain, but said they had arrested a 57-year-old man at the airport on Sunday.Fung is the second of Apple Daily’s editorialists to be arrested, and the seventh employee.
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