Activists of Civic Passion localist group protest outside police headquarters over the disappearance of five men linked to the Causeway Bay bookshop in Wanchai district in Hong Kong, China, on Monday. Hong Kong’s leader stated Mon.in that he was “highly concerned” concerning the current disappearances of 5 people related to a publishing company within the city in that makes a speciality of titles noteworthy of mainland China’s leadership.
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The ruckus was about five personnel that worked for a publishing house known for selling books critical of the Chinese government, four colleagues from the Mighty Current publishing house went missing in October (one in Thailand and two on the Chinese maianland). If they have indeed been arrested, then this is another example of the Chinese government’s campaign to try to silence dissent in Hong Kong. Since coming to power, Xi has embarked on a campaign to tighten the party’s grip on power that has included secret detentions and convictions for spreading information deemed unsafe. Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak for me.
Lee’s bookstore was popular among tourists from mainland China as a source of salacious books about the country’s elite banned on the mainland.
In the same month, two Hong Kong Chinese political magazine publishers Wang Jianmin and Guo Zhongjiao were prosecuted for illegal distribution of Hong Kong publications.
“No other law enforcement agencies, outside of Hong Kong, have such authority”.
The Hong Kong authorities later also confirmed that Lee did not have any record of having exited the island.
Protest co-organizer and vice chairman of the political party League of Social Democrats, Avery Ng, said the fact that Beijing would not confirm or deny its involvement in the disappearances created fear in the public.
Hong Kong was handed back to China by Britain in 1997 and enjoys liberties not seen on the mainland, but there are fears these are under threat.
It says he is “working with the concerned parties in an investigation which may take a while”.
Mr Lee had been speaking to the media about their disappearances on the condition his full name would not be revealed. “We feel that Hong Kong is not Hong Kong anymore, it is named as Hong Kong only”. News storiesdisplayed here appear in our category for worldwide and are licensed via a specific agreement between LongIsland.comand The Associated Press, the world’s oldest and largest news organization.
However, what is taking place might indicate that non-serious sensationalist publishing that impacts respected leaders on the Chinese mainland are just beyond the toleration limits of the authoritarian regime.
A letter allegedly written by Lee Bo, co-owner of a Hong Kong bookstore who went missing on December 30, has been published by Taiwanese official media. And there were warnings given to the owners not to publish this book.
Gui is also a Swedish national.
Police have launched an investigation into the disappearances. No other law enforcement agencies – outside of Hong Kong, that is – have such authority. Australia’s government previous year expressed “deep concerns” after China sent two police officers to Melbourne in late 2014 without permission to question a suspected economic fugitive. Ho had this to say as reported by U.S.A. Today.
“The incident has caused a high degree of concern and anxiety to Hong Kong residents”, the statement said.
A Hong Kong bookseller who sells material critical of the Chinese Government is believed to have been detained in mainland China.
“It would be an attack on independent thought”, Serfaty said.
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Anson Chan, who was the territory’s chief bureaucrat immediately after the handover from British rule, said Hong Kong people were already feeling increasingly vulnerable, as they had seen a “steady erosion” of the rights that were guaranteed at the time of that handover.
