Wing Mui TSOI speaking at PEN International 82nd Congress held in Ourense, Spain, on 28 September, 2016
There once was a famous saying in Hong Kong: A border separates Hong Kong from Mainland China. On both sides of this border are the same people with the same cultural tradition and they belong to same race. But there is a key difference: People on one side can criticize anyone but their government while people on the other side can criticize anyone but their wives. Continue reading
Tsoi Wing-Mui: Causeway Bay Bookstore Incident and Hong Kong’s Press Freedom已关闭评论
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Tagged bookseller, Causeway Bay Bookstore, Hong Kong, publication, Tsoi Wing-Mui, Yao Wentian, YIU MANTIN
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
Posted in Headlines, Hong Kong Democracy, honorary Members, Press Freedom
Tagged Bao Pu, bookseller, disappearance, Hong Kong, Mighty Current, Yao Wentian, Yu Jie
CHINA: Publisher Yao Wentian (aka Yiu Mantin) sentenced to 10 years in prison.
RAPID ACTION NETWORK
12 May 2014
Update #1 to RAN 02/14
CHINA: Publisher Yao Wentian (aka Yiu Mantin) sentenced to 10 years in prison.
PEN International is shocked by the heavy sentencing of Hong-based publisher Yao Wentian on 7 May 2014. Yao, who has been held in Shenzhen since 27 October 2013, was convicted by the Shenzhen Intermediate People’s Court on the charge of ‘smuggling prohibited items’ and sentenced to a 10-year jail term. At the time of his arrest he was preparing to publish a book by US-based 
dissident writer Yu Jie, entitled Chinese Godfather Xi Jinping. PEN believes the trial and conviction to bepolitically motivated. Yao suffers from asthma and a heart complaint and there are serious concerns for his health.
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CHINA: Publisher Yao Wentian (aka Yiu Mantin) sentenced to 10 years in prison.已关闭评论
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