Editor and chief executive denied bail in Apple Daily case in Hong Kong

A pro-democracy activist holding a copy of Apple Daily newspaper protests outside the court in Hong Kong (Kin Cheung/AP)

A Hong Kong court ordered the top editor of pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily and the head of its parent company held without bail on Saturday, in the first hearing since their arrest two days ago under the city’s national security law.

Ryan Law, the chief editor, and Cheung Kim-hung, the chief executive of Next Digital, have been charged with collusion with a foreign country to endanger national security, in a case widely seen as an attack on press freedom in the semi-autonomous Chinese territory.