Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/02/08
By: Sabine Cheng, Stanley Cheung and Kuo Chung-han
Taipei, Feb. 8 (CNA) Hong Kong bookseller Lam Wing-kee (林榮基) on Wednesday said
Asked if he considered seeking political asylum last June, Lam said that staying in Hong Kong was not a problem, but that if it became necessary he would “go to Taiwan.”
Lam, a former manager of independent Hong Kong bookstore Causeway Bay Books, was detained by Chinese police in mainland China from Oct. 2015 to June 2016 for mailing Chinese customers books deemed to be politically sensitive by the Beijing authorities. [FULL STORY]