Separately, officials on Tuesday ordered three companies linked to Lai’s now-shuttered newspaper, Apple Daily, removed from the city’s companies registry. A government statement said the companies were dissolved and became “prohibited organizations,” warning that anyone associating with them would violate a national security lawintroduced in 2024.
Lai and the three newly de-registered companies — Apple Daily Limited, Apple Daily Printing Limited, and AD internet Limited — were convicted in December of conspiracy to collude with foreign forces to endanger national security. They were also found guilty of conspiring with others to publish seditious materials under a separate sedition law.