Two Apple Daily executives have been charged under Beijing’s draconian national security law, a day after more than 500 police officers raided the newspaper’s headquarters and arrested five executives. The Apple Daily is one of Hong Kong’s only remaining independent newspapers. According to a Hong Kong government release published after 3 p.m. local time on Friday, police charged two men, aged 47 and 59, for “conspiracy to endanger national security.” The men were charged with colluding with “a foreign country or with external elements to endanger national security” under Article 29 of Beijing’s sweeping national security law, which took effect last July. Article 29 of the law bans “collusion with a foreign country or with external elements to endanger national security.” The collusion charge carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment. Apple Daily confirmed that the two men charged this afternoon are CEO Cheung Kim-hung and Chief Editor Ryan Law, …