‘I could hardly hold back the tears’: a diary of Apple Daily’s last week

A reporter from the 26-year-old Hong Kong newspaper describes its final days

A Hong Kong police national security operation has forced the closure of the city's most vocal and pro-democracy newspaper, Apple Daily. Its senior executives arrested, companies charged, and accounts frozen, the paper survived for less than a week after hundreds of officers raided the newsroom, accusing it of foreign collusion. Here a reporter from the 26-year-old paper describes the final days.