FILE - Members of the media take photos of stacks of the last issue of Apple Daily as they arrive at a newspaper booth in Hong Kong, June 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu, File)

FILE - Jimmy Lai, center, who founded the Apple Daily tabloid, is escorted by Correctional Services officers to get on a prison van before appearing in a court, in Hong Kong on Dec. 12, 2020. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)

Member of the public wait outside the district court ahead of the verdict on Chung Pui-kuen, the ex-chief editor of the now shuttered Stand News online outlet and his colleague Patrick Lam, former acting chief editor, in Hong Kong on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Billy H.C. Kwok)

Chung Pui-kuen, the ex-chief editor of the now shuttered Stand News online outlet, outside the district court, in Hong Kong on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Billy H.C. Kwok)

Member of the media surround Chung Pui-kuen, the ex-chief editor of the now shuttered Stand News online outlet, outside the district court, in Hong Kong on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Billy H.C. Kwok)

Chung Pui-kuen, the ex-chief editor of the now shuttered Stand News online outlet, stand before the media outside the district court, in Hong Kong on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Billy H.C. Kwok)

FILE - People queue up for last issue of Apple Daily at a newspaper booth at a downtown street in Hong Kong, June 24, 2021. ( AP Photo/Vincent Yu, File)