Pro-Beijing media and government officials in Hong Kong are ganging up on local independent newspaper Apple Daily—one of the few remaining free media in Hong Kong—threatening to shut it down. Apple Daily was founded by Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai who on April 16 was sentenced to 14 months in prison for supporting Hong Kong’s anti-Beijing and pro-democracy movement in 2019. During the opening ceremony of Hong Kong’s newly introduced “National Security Education Day” on April 15, the city’s chief executive Carrie Lam stated that the local government would “strengthen publicity, guidance, supervision, and management of schools, social organizations, media, and the internet regarding national security issues” based on the Hong Kong National Security Law passed by China’s ruling communist party in Beijing last year. On the same day, Hong Kong Police Commissioner Chris Tang told reporters the police would “strengthen the supervision of the media” and criticized Lai’s Apple Daily, without …