24 Jun 2025RFA#6943
無國界記者與《蘋果》前員工出特刊 向拒絕沉默的記者致敬
Hong Kong’s Apple Daily was forced to shut down under authoritarian pressure four years ago, publishing its final newspaper on 24 June that year. Today (24 June), Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and a group of former Apple Daily journalists now living overseas in the diaspora published a four-page special edition, “The Spirit of Apple Daily Lives On”, paying tribute to journalists around the world who continue to uphold the truth and resist censorship.
The special edition includes an article by Sebastien Lai, son of Next Digital founder Jimmy Lai. He writes that his 77-year-old father has been held in solitary confinement for more than 1,600 days and that his health has deteriorated sharply. He says: “Apple Daily spoke up for Hong Kong people at newsstands, provided the truth and thereby gave them strength. My father brought trouble upon himself by pursuing the public good and doing what was right, and paid the highest price for it. Jimmy Lai stood up for the freedoms that we all cherish. Now it is our turn to support him.”
The special edition also features interviews with former Apple Daily journalists. Carrie Ka Lai Leung, now editor-in-chief of Light Media, said that after independent media in Hong Kong had been destroyed, the role of media outlets in the diaspora had become even more important: to fill the news and information black hole.
In a press release, RSF director general Thibaut Bruttin said: “This Apple Daily special edition is not an obituary, but a tribute to the enormous sacrifices made by journalists who refuse to remain silent. Although Beijing continues to try to strangle Hong Kong’s independent journalism, the legacy of Apple Daily lives on, and brave journalists will uphold the spirit of the paper and continue to challenge government propaganda with accurate and truthful reporting.”
香港《蘋果日報》4年前在極權壓力下被迫熄燈，並在同年6月24日出版最後一份報紙。4年後的今天（24日），無國界記者（RSF）與一群離散海外的前《蘋果日報》記者，推出4頁特刊《蘋果日報精神常存》，向全球仍堅持真相、抵抗審查的新聞工作者致敬。
特刊收錄了壹傳媒創辦人黎智英之子黎崇恩的撰文，他提到現年77歲的父親黎智英，至今已被單獨囚禁超過1,600日，身體健康急轉直下。他說：「《蘋果日報》在報攤上為港人發聲、提供真相並藉此給予他們力量。我父親因追求公益良善而惹禍上身，為此付出最高昂的代價。黎智英為我們所有人珍惜的自由挺身而出。現在換我們支持他了」。
特刊並訪問了前《蘋果》記者，其中現職為《光傳媒》總編的梁嘉麗指出，在香港獨立媒體被摧毀後，離散媒體的角色更加重要，便是填補新聞資訊的黑洞。
無國界記者執行長柏儒廷（Thibaut Bruttin）在新聞稿指出：「這份《蘋果日報》特刊並非訃告，而是向拒絕沉默的記者所做出的巨大犧牲致敬。儘管北京不斷試圖扼殺香港獨立新聞，但《蘋果日報》的傳承永存，勇敢的記者將秉持該報精神，繼續以準確真實的報道挑戰政府宣傳。」
20 Apr 2024集誌社#3397
蘋果停運｜停刊近三年 部分前員工終獲破欠補償金
Apple Daily, which ceased publication nearly three years ago and had its funds frozen by the government, had been unable to provide employees even with compensation from the Protection of Wages on Insolvency Fund because no creditor had applied to wind up the company. Last Friday, two creditors filed a petition seeking an order to wind up Apple Daily Limited. The Collective learned that, from Tuesday (16th), some former employees had finally begun receiving payments from the fund. In response to enquiries from The Collective, the Labour Department confirmed that it was disbursing ex gratia payments from the fund to former employees because employees had filed a winding-up petition against Apple Daily Limited.
However, the compensation represents only a small part of the back pay owed. The Collective found that at least 72 former Apple Daily employees have so far won claims for unpaid wages, involving more than HK$5.44 million. But the fund has a payment cap, meaning the former employees received only part of the amounts owed. One former Apple Daily employee said the money was wages they were entitled to, and that the Security Bureau could theoretically unfreeze some of Apple Daily’s funds to pay them. But after waiting so long to receive the money through the fund, the employee asked: “How is this any different from punishing the employees?”
停刊近三年、資金被政府凍結的《蘋果日報》，因一直沒債權人申請清盤，員工連破欠基金發的補償金也取不到。上周五，有兩名債權人入稟，要求頒令蘋果日報有限公司清盤。《集誌社》獲悉，本周二（ 16 日）起，終於有部分員工開始獲發破欠基金補償金。勞工處回覆《集誌社》查詢時，確認由於有僱員向「蘋果日報有限公司」提出清盤呈請，正向前員工發放破欠基金的特惠款項。
不過這份補償金，只佔追薪的一小部分。《集誌社》統計，至今最少有 72 名《蘋果》前員工追薪勝訴，涉款逾 544 萬元。但破欠基金有上限，前員工只獲發還部分款項。有《蘋果》前員工直言，這筆是應得的人工，保安局理論上可解凍《蘋果》部分資金再出糧，但現要隔這麼長時間，才經破欠基金收到款項，反問「同懲罰員工有咩分別？」
25 Jul 2022同文#2263
24.9 萬《立場》網站頁面獲互聯網檔案館備份 現開放搜尋 「聞庫」集結逾 230 萬篇蘋果、立場文章
On 29 December last year, the National Security Department raided the office of Stand News and arrested several directors and senior executives. Stand News announced its closure on the same day and removed all content from its website, abruptly erasing seven years of Hong Kong history it had documented, along with every word written by its journalists. However, many people worked to back up the material before the memories were erased. Earlier, a group of LIHKG users set up the website “Ku Wen”, re-uploading tens of thousands of Apple Daily and Stand News articles for public browsing. The Internet Archive, headquartered in the United States and dedicated to backing up different websites, has also recently launched a new function allowing users to search archived pages from the Stand News website by keyword.
去年 12 月 29 日，國安處突擊搜查《立場新聞》的辦公室，並拘捕多名董事和高層。《立場》同日宣布停運，並移除網站上所有內容，七年來所記錄的香港歷史、記者的一字一句一下子被清零。不過，亦有不少人趁記憶被抹走之前，盡力備份。早前就有一班連登用戶建立了網站「聞庫」，將數以萬計的《蘋果日報》和《立場》文章重新放上網供大家瀏覽。而總部設於美國，專責為不同網頁進行備份的「互聯網檔案館（Internet Archive）」，近日亦開放了新功能，讓網民可以用關鍵字搜尋已備份的《立場新聞》網站版面。
14 Nov 2021立場新聞#1684
【中大新聞獎】鏗鏘集 721 報道、蘋果 12 港人調查獲獎 《立場新聞》奪兩獎
The 10th CUHK News Awards presentation ceremony was held. Hong Kong Connection’s 721 report and Apple Daily’s investigation into 12 Hong Kongers won awards, while Stand News also took two awards.
第十屆中大新聞獎舉行頒獎禮，鏗鏘集 721 報道、蘋果 12 港人調查獲獎，《立場新聞》亦奪兩獎。
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