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no bull and the aftermath.

Prior to the imposition of the National Security Law, there was already a creeping erosion

of freedom of the press for quite a few years, even before the NSL, the other major print

newspapers would routinely engage in self-sensorship.

Some of them were owned by tycoons with close business or patronage ties to Beijing.

Some of them we know for fact spiked certain op-ed pieces that were considered particularly

critical of the Hong Kong-al-Bajian governments.

But in terms of raids conducted, purportedly under the National Security Law, this isn't

even the first set of raids.

I'm Benjamin Widis and this is the LawFair podcast June 25, 2021.

The Apple Daily newspaper in Hong Kong has shut down under pressure from the Chinese

and Hong Kong governments.

It's the latest political repression in Hong Kong that shows no sign of easing up.

Alvin Chung is a postdoctoral fellow at McGill University and a non-resident affiliated

scholar at NYU's US Asia Law Institute.

He joined me in the virtual jungle studio to talk about the Apple Daily case, the other

cases like it, the implementation of Hong Kong's new national security law and what it all means

for the Hong Kong Constitutional Order.

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