As the Hong Kong authorities expand their investigation into Apple Daily by arresting an opinion writer, the fiercely independent newspaper says it will close this week. Already two top executives and its owner are facing national security charges nytimes.com/2021/06/23/wor… Apple now says it will close tonight, citing employee safety and manpower considerations tw.appledaily.com/international/…

“Welcome Enaction of the National Security Law” appeared on the Hong Kong waterfront overnight One question among many about the national security law: will slogans like “End one-party dictatorship” remain legal? Leung Kwok-hung and other members of his League of Social Democrats hold up signs with that phrase and “Resist the national security law” in Wanchai this morning

More than 400 pages of internal Chinese documents detail the origins and growth of the indoctrination program in Xinjiang, where a million or more predominately Muslim minorities have been held in a vast network of detention centers nytimes.com/interactive/20… Not going to be able to explain it all in a thread. We put months of reporting, analysis and translation work into this story. I’ve disappeared from Hong Kong coverage a few times recently (including this past week) with only mumbled excuses for my absence (Sorry!)

Protests in Hong Kong on Sunday started with a rally in Chater Garden (approved by police) and then a march (not approved). The destination was going to be Sun Yat-Sen MemorialPark in western Hong Kong Island. But now thousands are marching east. Don’t know why yet! Lennon Wall going up on Queensway in Admiralty, which is now full of protesters

Big Hong Kong protest against a law that would allow extraditions to mainland China arrives in Wanchai Here’s our early story nytimes.com/2019/06/09/wor… and a longer overview from Friday nytimes.com/2019/06/07/wor…