At 2 a.m. on Jun 24 in Hong Kong's Mongkok neighborhood, newspaper vendors received the second batch of Apple Daily from the printer.
The first batch of 800 copies had sold out immediately. The second print run was increased to 10,000 copies.
As the copies arrived, journalists and civilians rushed to take pictures of the last edition of the most outspoken pro-democracy paper in Hong Kong, which has been printed for 26 years.
Authorities, who are closely aligned with the mainland Communist Chinese government, have used different means of stopping the truth-seeking newspaper from operating, including charging editors and executives with violating the draconian Beijing-inspired National Security Law, which clamps down on Free speech in the city-state, and by freezing the assets of the paper and three connecting companies.
Many see this as an end to press freedom and local culture that Hongkongers have enjoyed under its "one state, two systems" rule, originally put in place by the British when they left the city to mainland communist China in 1997. That plan now seems dead after several such crackdowns.
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