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Hong Kong Secretary For Security John Lee Press Conference

Hong Kong’s Secretary for Security John Lee Ka-chiu speaks during a press conference inside the Central Government Offices in Hong Kong, Monday, May 17, 2021. The Hong Kong stock exchange halted trading of Next Digital shares ahead of market opening on Monday after the Security Bureau moved to freeze assets belonging to its controlling shareholder, Jimmy Lai, Lai is understood to hold 71 percent of the shares in Next Digital, which publishes the pro-democracy Apple Daily newspaper. The freeze order also included the property held in local banks by three companies owned by him. The police’s national security department charged Lai with collusion with a foreign country to endanger national security on December 11. It brought two further charges of conspiracy on April 16 this year (Photo by Vernon Yuen/NurPhoto)

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