by June 2019 The primary fights start in Hong Kong, with a large number of individuals taking to the road in challenge a proposed removal charge, which pundits dread will permit individuals to be shipped off terrain China for preliminary.
8 July The supportive of majority rule government lobbyist and news head honcho Jimmy Lai goes to the US and meets the VP, Mike Pence, and the secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, to talk about the proposed removal bill. China’s unfamiliar service delivers an assertion charging “public filth and Hong Kong miscreants” of going about as political instruments for unfamiliar forces.1 June 2020 Apple Daily dispatches an English-language version, offering news and assessment articles on the web. Throughout the following a half year it intently follows the fights, generally steady of dissenters and scrutinizing police fierceness.
30 June Beijing forces the public safety law (NSL) on Hong Kong, banning demonstrations of rebellion, withdrawal, unfamiliar plot, and psychological oppression. Lai tells media the Hong Kong he once knew is dead.
10 August Lai and senior Next Digital media leaders are captured at their homes in the early morning, with Lai blamed for plotting with unfamiliar powers. The Apple Daily newsroom is assaulted interestingly: journalists livestream the occasion and show cops rifling through work areas. Halfway through the strike a cuffed Lai is walked through the newsroom. He is subsequently delivered on bail.
15 August Lai tells the Guardian his capture under the NSL is specialists needing to “get defensive” of the law, yet they hadn’t chomped at this point. He says media should push on.
3 December Lai and two Next Digital leaders are accused of extortion, blamed for breaking land-rent terms by abusing Next Digital’s office space in Tseung Kwan O for different purposes. They are denied bail.
11 December Lai is accused of unfamiliar intrigue under the NSL. He is subsequently delivered on bail under exacting conditions adding up to house capture yet investigators prevail with regards to having the choice toppled after solid analysis from Beijing and government figures, and he is gotten back to prison on remand.
29 December Lai leaves as seat and leader head of Next Digital media, “to invest more energy managing his own undertakings”, the organization declares.
13 April 2021 Days before his condemning for fight related charges, Lai keeps in touch with Apple Daily staff from jail, advising them to deal with themselves yet to “stand tall”. “The right to speak freely of discourse is a risky work,” he composed. “If it’s not too much trouble, be mindful so as not to face challenges. Your own wellbeing is vital.”
15 April Apple Daily is one of the solitary every day papers not to run government notices for public safety training day. Its inclusion seems to provoke a furious censure from the police magistrate, Chris Tang. Tang blames an unknown paper for impelling disdain, and cautions of public safety examinations. Supportive of Beijing outlets call for Apple Daily to be closed
17 June National security police capture the proofreader in-boss, Ryan Law, and four different overseers of Apple Daily in early morning assaults more than many articles claimed to be important for a scheme to intrigue with unfamiliar powers. They assault the newsroom briefly time, with a warrant to hold onto many PCs. Staff get back to work, utilizing their telephones to construct the following day’s paper, and livestream the print machines.
18 June More than a large portion of 1,000,000 duplicates of the paper are purchased by Hongkongers in help, a more than fivefold increment on common deals. Police charge Law and the CEO, Cheung Kim-hung, and report the arraignment of three organizations. Resources totalling HK$18m (£1.66m) and accounts containing more than $500m are frozen.
