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  "slug": "carrie-lam",
  "name": "Carrie Lam",
  "office": null,
  "role": "Chief Executive of Hong Kong",
  "country": "HK",
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      "slug": "2021-hong-kong-apple-daily-forced-closure",
      "title": "China (Hong Kong): Apple Daily closes after its assets are frozen under the national security law",
      "occurred_on": "2021-06-24",
      "occurred_on_precision": "day",
      "country": "HK",
      "country_name": "Hong Kong",
      "continent": "asia",
      "jurisdiction": "HK",
      "level": "national",
      "tactic_primary": "outlet_licensing",
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        "outlet_licensing"
      ],
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      "leader_name": "Carrie Lam",
      "issue_of_the_day": "The closure followed Hong Kong's 2019 to 2020 pro-democracy protests and Beijing's imposition of a national security law on the territory in June 2020, which criminalized broadly defined acts of subversion and collusion with foreign forces.",
      "outcome": "sustained",
      "outcome_on": "2021-06-24",
      "outcome_note": "Apple Daily did not resume publication and its former executives faced additional charges as of the December 2021 report reviewed.",
      "stage": "silence",
      "ladder_note": "A newspaper's assets were frozen and its senior editors charged with offenses carrying up to life imprisonment, ending publication entirely rather than a licensing dispute or fine.",
      "rsf": {
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        "year": 2026,
        "rank": 140,
        "of": 180,
        "label": "RSF 2026 rank: 140th of 180",
        "source_url": "https://rsf.org/en/index"
      },
      "era": "2020s",
      "granularity": "granular",
      "status": "in_effect",
      "case_count": 0,
      "summary": "Apple Daily, Hong Kong's largest pro-democracy newspaper, printed its final edition after the government froze its parent company's assets and arrested its editors under the national security law imposed on the territory in 2020.",
      "url": "https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2021-hong-kong-apple-daily-forced-closure"
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    "name": "CC BY 4.0",
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