Hong Kong, blitz in the editorial staff of Stand News: the last major non-aligned news site also closes

HONG KONG – The latest blow to free information Hong Kong was given a few hours ago. Hundreds of policemen broke into the newsroom of Stand News, a news site that represented the most important bulwark of what used to be free journalism in the former British colony. Six people were arrested “for seditious information”; Computers, telephones and other materials from journalists were also seized.