Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/05/09
By Stacy Hsu, CNA staff reporter
Imagine this: You have been locked and mentally tormented in a carefully guarded room
Lam Wing-kee
for months and you worry your partner or friends may be suffering the same fate.
On top of this, you know the only thing that stands between you and physical torture is the authorities’ need for you to “look good” in a forced TV confession later on. The level of despair is overwhelming.
The idea of reliving that ordeal was what drove Hong Kong bookseller Lam Wing-kee (林榮基) to flee to Taiwan in late April.
Lam, along with four other individuals related to Causeway Bay Books, “vanished” for months in late 2015 for selling titles critical of the Chinese government and mailing them to people in China. [FULL STORY]
