Former Journalist At Hong Kong's Apple Daily Released On Bail

Live footage showed Fung Wai-kong leaving a Hong Kong police station but he declined to comment to reporters.

A former senior journalist at Hong Kong's now-closed pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily was released from custody on Tuesday, two days after he was arrested at the airport, media reported. Fung Wai-kong, 57, became the latest person from the media outlet to be targeted after a raid on the newspaper by 500 officers nearly two weeks ago and the arrests of five executives, two of whom have been charged under a sweeping new national security law. Live footage showed Fung leaving a Hong Kong police station but he declined to comment to reporters. In an email response for comment on Fung's release, police said only that a male suspect had been released from custody. Investigations were ongoing and the person needed to report back to police in late July.