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The arrests come as authorities crackdown on dissent in the semi-autonomous Chinese city.
Hong Kong pro-democracy media outlet Stand News says it will close after a police raid on its offices and arrests of seven current and former staff members, in the latest blow to the city's rapidly-shrinking press freedoms.
Journalists from Hong Kong media outlet CitizenNews decried plummeting press freedoms as they closed on Monday, saying they no longer felt safe to publish after colleagues at a rival publication were arrested for "sedition". One of the most popular online news outlets in Hong Kong with more than 800,000 followers across its social media platforms, CitizenNews is the third media outlet to shutter as Beijing overseas a sweeping crackdown on dissent.
Police take Hong Kong's Stand News editor in chief out of the building where the local media outlet's office is located, and load boxes of evidence into a truck after they raided its office and arrested six current and former staff for "seditious publication". IMAGES
Media outlets in Hong Kong must not "subvert" the government, the city's leader says, rejecting US criticism of recent action against pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily under a powerful new security law.
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