Hong Kong online pro-democracy news outlet Stand News announced five actions to protect its employees, donors, readers, and board members in the event action is taken against it by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on June 27. The outlet vowed to continue its news reporting, and urged supporters to donate to other independent media, free reporters and commentators, and news organizations who support free speech and press. This is the first Hong Kong pro-democracy news outlet to announce internal changes after the Chinese regime in June clamped down on Apple Daily, a pro-democracy news outlet and one of the three top-selling Hong Kong newspapers. Announcement Stand News announced on Sunday night five actions it would take to respond to “the literary inquisition that has been applied in Hong Kong” and in the event the publication “encounters a fatal disaster” like the one Apple Daily suffered. The first action would be deleting all …