Chris Patten. Hong Kong's last colonial governor, Chris Patten, has criticized the arrest of Next Digital founder Jimmy Lai Chee-ying and six other executives today. In a Hong Kong Watch statement, he said the arrests and the raid by more than 100 police officers of the publisher's headquarters are a further major attack on the city's freedoms and way of life. "This is the most outrageous assault yet on what is left of Hong Kong's free press. "The arrests will be regarded by a growing number of people as another large step towards turning Hong Kong into a replica of Beijing's police state."

Source: The Standard August 10, 2020 11:06 UTC