{"id":6675,"date":"2016-03-03T22:42:16","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T03:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/?p=6675"},"modified":"2016-03-04T14:44:48","modified_gmt":"2016-03-04T19:44:48","slug":"hk-booksellers-to-be-released-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/hk-booksellers-to-be-released-soon","title":{"rendered":"HK booksellers &#8216;to be released soon&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6676\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6676\" class=\"wp-image-6676\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/files\/2016\/03\/a-bookshop-and-publishers-which-sold-books-critical-of-China.jpg\" alt=\"a bookshop and publishers which sold books critical of China\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/files\/2016\/03\/a-bookshop-and-publishers-which-sold-books-critical-of-China.jpg 660w, https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/files\/2016\/03\/a-bookshop-and-publishers-which-sold-books-critical-of-China-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6676\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">All the men were linked to a bookshop and publishers which sold books critical of China<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Police in Guangdong said in a letter to the Hong Kong force that Lui Bo, Lam Wingkei and Cheung Jiping would be bailed pending investigations.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>They have all appeared on state TV apparently confessing to smuggling illegal books into China.<\/p>\n<p>It was unclear whether they would be able to return home and there was no comment on two other booksellers.<\/p>\n<p>The three men, as well as Swedish national Gui Minhai and British national Lee Bo, are linked to a Hong Kong shop and publisher which sold books critical of mainland China.<\/p>\n<p>The case has sparked international concern that China could be attempting to rein in freedom of expression in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p>Their supporters believe they were abducted by China, though they have denied this.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/m.newslocker.com\/en-uk\/news\/asia_news\/hk-booksellers-to-be-released-soon\/view\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/m.newslocker.com\/en-uk\/news\/asia_news\/hk-booksellers-to-be-released-soon\/view\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Guangdong said in a letter to  &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/hk-booksellers-to-be-released-soon\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,167],"tags":[1473,1544,1400,90,1543,1474,1542],"views":4840,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6675"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6677,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6675\/revisions\/6677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}