Penname Ah Hai
Sex Male
Birth date 1964-05-05
Birth place Ning City, Zhejiang Province
Resident place Düsseldorf, Germany (Swedish citizen)
Education B.A. in History at Peking University (1985), M.A. in Humanities (1990) and Ph.D in History (1996) at University of Gothenburg Continue reading
In Geneva, it does not go entirely unnoticed that China continues to engage in a sustained crackdown which aims to gag, discredit, or intimidate into silence virtually any dissenting voices in the country. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, in his annual global update to the UN’s top human rights body, raised a number of serious concerns in Asian countries. On China specifically, he deplored ‘the intimidation and detention of lawyers and activists who seek the good of their community and nation’ and added: ‘I am also disturbed by cases of restrictions on cultural and religious rights, particularly in Xinjiang and Tibet’. Continue reading
HRC34 | Urge China to amend laws, investigate torture and release detained defenders已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer
Tagged Gui Minhai, Guo Feixiong, HRC34, Hu Shigen, ISHR, NGO, Torture, Xie Yang
Freed Hong Kong bookseller Lam Wing-kee, right, is accompanied by pro-democracy lawyer Albert Ho after giving a news conference in Hong Kong, June 16, 2016.
WASHINGTON—China is toughening its position in the case of five Hong Kong booksellers it detained last year for publishing books critical of Chinese leaders.
China Hardens Position Against Hong Kong Booksellers已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Hong Kong Democracy, Press Freedom
Tagged bookseller, Gui Minhai, Hong Kong, Lam Wing-kee
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
Posted in Hong Kong Democracy, Press Freedom
Tagged bookseller, Causeway Bay Books, Gui Minhai, Hong Kong, Lam Wing-kee, Ningbo
Returned bookseller Lam Wing-kei speaks to RFA in Hong Kong, June 20, 2016. RFA
Lam Wing-kei, a slight, soft-spoken man who carries a satchel and looks extremely tired, doesn’t look like much of a threat to the ruling Chinese Communist Party. Continue reading
‘I Am Definitely Being Followed in Hong Kong’: Returned Bookseller Lam Wing-kei已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Press Freedom
Tagged bookseller, Gui Minhai, Hong Kong, Lam Wing-kei, Publisher
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
Posted in Headlines, Press Freedom
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
Posted in Headlines, Press Freedom
Tagged Causeway Bay Books, Gui Minhai, Hong Kong, Lam Wing-kei, Publisher
Placards showing missing bookseller Lee Bo (L) and his associate Gui Minhai (R) are shown by members of the Civic Party outside the China liaison office in Hong Kong, Jan. 19, 2016. AFP
The daughter of a Swedish national, who was detained by China under opaque circumstances, is calling on the United States to press Beijing for his release. Continue reading
Daughter of Swedish Bookseller Says He is Illegally Held in China on Dubious Charges已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Hong Kong Democracy, Press Freedom
Tagged Angela Gui, CECC, disappearance, Gui Minhai, Hong Kong, Publisher
