The police said that 500 officers raided the newsroom of the pro-democracy Apple Daily tabloid after reports it had published were suspected to have breached the new national security law, Reuters reports.
Police have also frozen HK$18 million (US$2.32 million) of assets owned by three companies linked to Apple Daily, senior superintendent Li Kwai-wah told reporters outside the paper's headquarters in Tseung Kwan O Industrial Estate.