Hong Kong newspaper increases print run after arrests

With anti-government protests silenced, most of the city’s prominent pro-democracy activists in jail and many others fleeing abroad, people snapped up copies at newsstands and in convenience stores

People queue up to buy Apple Daily at a downtown street in Hong Kong on Friday. Picture: Vincent Yu/AP

Hong Kong pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily on Friday increased its print run to 500,000 copies as residents showed support for beleaguered press freedoms.

It came a day after police arrested five senior editors and executives at the paper and froze 2.3 million dollars (£1.65 million) worth of its assets on national security charges.