Hong Kong pro-democracy publisher, activists arrested over protest

Hong Kong police on Friday arrested a media mogul who is an outspoken China critic and two activists over their participation in an anti-government protest last August.Jimmy Lai, owner of Next Digital Ltd., which publishes the Apple Daily newspaper, and former Hong Kong legislators Lee Cheuk-yan and Yeung Sum, are alleged to have taken part in an unauthorized assembly on Aug. 31, according to local media.The protest in question was one of many held in the semiautonomous Chinese territory last year that were initially triggered by swelling public opposition to an unpopular government plan to…READ FULL ARTICLE