A Pro-Democracy Paper Shut Down in Hong Kong

All Of It with Alison Stewart | Jul 2, 2021

Last week, Hong Kong's largest pro-democracy newspaper, Apple Daily, was forced to close after authorities used a June 2020 security law to freeze the company's assets and accounts, and arrested several people involved with the paper. NY4HK organizer and Manhattanville professor Anna Yeung-Cheung joins us to discuss the international reaction to this news, and the future of free press in Hong Kong.

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