Returned bookseller Lam Wing-kei speaks to RFA in Hong Kong, June 20, 2016. RFA
Police in China’s eastern city of Ningbo have called on bookseller Lam Wing-kee, whose explosive revelations of eight months in Chinese detention rocked his native Hong Kong, to return to the mainland to cooperate with an investigation. Continue reading
Chinese Police Want Outspoken Bookseller Lam to Return to the Mainland已关闭评论
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Tagged bookseller, Causeway Bay Books, Gui Minhai, Hong Kong, Lam Wing-kee, Ningbo
Members of the Hong Kong Journalists’ Association display their annual report, July 3, 2016. RTHK
Journalists in Hong Kong have called on the city’s government to do much more to protect press freedom, citing a “grave threat” to its traditional freedoms of expression and association. Continue reading
Hong Kong Journalists Warn Over ‘Grave Threat’ to City’s Freedoms已关闭评论
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Tagged Causeway Bay Books, HKJA, Hong Kong
Hong Kong bookseller Lam Wing-kei speaks to reporters in Hong Kong, June 16, 2016. AFP
The fourth of five missing Hong Kong booksellers to return to the city has confirmed that he was detained as he crossed the internal immigration border into mainland China last October, before being blindfolded, spirited away, and interrogated for months by a special police unit directed from Beijing. Continue reading
Returned Hong Kong Bookseller Says ‘Confession’ Scripted, Lee Bo Abducted已关闭评论
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Tagged bookseller, Causeway Bay Books, Gui Minhai, Hong Kong, Lam Wing-kei, Mighty Current Publishing, Ningbo, press conference, Zhejiang
Journalists wait outside a building entrance under a yellow sign that leads up to the Causeway Bay Books store which sells books on Chinese politics in Hong Kong, Feb. 1, 2016. AFP
China has allowed the fourth of five missing Hong Kong booksellers to return to the city, where he requested that police close the file on his missing persons case. Continue reading
Fourth Causeway Bay Bookseller Reappears in Hong Kong, Sparking Questions已关闭评论
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Tagged Causeway Bay Books, Gui Minhai, Hong Kong, Lam Wing-kei, Publisher
The now-closed Causeway Bay bookstore in Hong Kong, Jan. 10, 2016. AFP
The disappearances of five Hong Kong booksellers represent a “breach” of the terms of the city’s handover to China, known as the “one country, two systems” policy, the U.S. State Department said in a report this week. Continue reading
Cracks Appear in Hong Kong’s Status as Separate Jurisdiction: Reports已关闭评论
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Tagged booksellers, Causeway Bay Books, censorship, disappearance, Gui Minhai, Hong Kong
Both Lee and Gui later denied in mainland China that any abduction had taken place – but an email obtained by the South China Morning Post says otherwise
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Gui Minhai appears on state television. Lee Po feared he was taken by mainland Chinese agents while he was in Thailand. Photo: Phoenix TV
Exclusive: Email reveals Lee Po feared Gui Minhai kidnapped by Chinese agents before he himself disappeared已关闭评论
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Tagged bookseller, Causeway Bay Books, disappearance, email, Gui Minhai, Hong Kong, Lee Po
Placards showing missing bookseller Lee Bo (L) and his associate Gui Minhai (R) outside the China liaison office in Hong Kong, Jan. 19, 2016. AFP
The first of five Hong Kong booksellers detained in mainland China since October over sales of political books across the internal border has returned to the city, local media reported on Friday. Continue reading
Hong Kong Bookseller Returns Home, ‘Refuses to Discuss Details’已关闭评论
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Tagged Causeway Bay Books, confession, Gui Minhai, Hong Kong, Illegal business, Lui Por
18 February 2016, Hermina Wong
Publishing and bookselling associations based in the US and Europe have penned a joint letter to Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying, urging him to take action on the missing Causeway Bay booksellers. Continue reading
International publishers urge Chief Executive to take action on missing booksellers已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Hong Kong Democracy, ICPC News, Press Freedom
Tagged bookseller, Causeway Bay Books, Gui Minhai, Hong Kong, Lee Bo, Mighty Current, PEN, publishers
