Western governments and lawmakers condemned a Hong Kong police raid on the pro-democracy tabloid Apple Daily on June 17, saying it showed Beijing was using a draconian national security law to suppress dissent and silence free press in the city. Five hundred Hong Kong police officers sifted through reporters’ computers and notebooks at the daily. They also arrested five executives at the outlet, including its editor-in-chief, on charges of collusion with foreign forces to endanger national security under the controversial law. A Hong Kong police official said the collusion charge was in relation to over 30 articles published by the outlet since 2019 that sought to have foreign countries impose sanctions on China or Hong Kong. This marks the first time that authorities have cited media articles as potentially violating the national security law. Hong Kong’s Security Secretary John Lee accused the executives of using journalism as a “tool to …