A Hong Kong publisher who went missing for nearly three months is reportedly back in mainland China – a few hours after returning to Hong Kong.
Lee Bo was escorted into a car that drove him to mainland China, local media said
Lee Bo, a British citizen, was widely believed to have been abducted and taken to mainland China late last year along with four of his colleagues. Continue reading
Hong Kong missing booksellers: Lee Bo back in mainland China已关闭评论
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A plane at Beijing airport. It is not known if Jia Jia boarded his flight to Hong Kong. Photograph: Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters
A Chinese journalist has reportedly disappeared while attempting to fly from Beijing to Hong Kong, stoking fears he has become the latest victim of a widening Communist party crackdown on dissent. Continue reading
Chinese journalist ‘disappears’ while trying to fly to Hong Kong已关闭评论
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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
Phila Siu, [email protected]
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
HONG KONG | By Stella Tsang and James Pomfret
A printout showing Lee Bo, specializing in publications critical of China, and four other colleagues who went missing, is displayed outside a bookstore at Causeway Bay shopping district in Hong Kong, China January 6, 2016. REUTERS/Bobby Yip
Four of the five Hong Kong booksellers who went missing in October appeared on Chinese television confirming for the first time they’d been detained for “illegal book trading” in mainland China. Continue reading
Missing HK booksellers say arrested for sales of banned books in China已关闭评论
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Customers browse books on Chinese politics by Mighty Current, the publisher that has seen five of its booksellers disappear, at a stall set up by political activists in Hong Kong on Feb. 5. Anthony Wallace/AFP/Getty Images
Five Hong Kong booksellers disappeared and later turned up in police custody on mainland China, and nearly two months later, Chinese authorities have yet to explain how they got there. Continue reading
A Chilling Effect As Hong Kong’s Missing Bookseller Cases Go Unresolved已关闭评论
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Tagged Bao Pu, bookseller, disappearance, Hong Kong, Mighty Current, Yao Wentian, Yu Jie
The Honorable Leung Chun-ying
Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
1 Tim Wa Avenue
Admiralty
Hong Kong
February 17, 2016
Your Excellency Chief Executive Leung: Continue reading
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Tagged Cheung Chi-ping, disappearance, Gui Minhai, Hong Kong, Lam Wing-kee, Lee Bo, Leung Chun-ying, Lui Por, Mighty Current, PEN
Nathan VanderKlippe
HONG KONG — The Globe and Mail
Lee Bo had reason to be suspicious when he got a phone call just before 6 p.m. on Dec. 30 from someone who wanted to place an order for 10 copies of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. The bookseller didn’t know the caller, a potential red flag at a fraught time. Four of Mr. Lee’s colleagues had vanished months earlier, shocking Hong Kong and raising worry that China is abducting people it wants to silence. Continue reading
China extends reach to take Hong Kong’s freedom of speech away已关闭评论
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In a video interview with a bookseller missing since November, he says he was afraid of going to jail and thought he’d better run – despite being given a suspended sentence for the offence in 2004 Continue reading
Missing Hong Kong bookseller appears on state television, claiming he turned himself in over 11-year-old drink-driving death已关闭评论
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Tagged bookseller, CCTV, disappearance, Gui Minhai, Hong Kong, Mighty Current
