EXPEDITED PLANS: Lam Wing-kei said that he already wanted to move to Taiwan before Hong Kong’s government announced plans to allow extraditions to China
Taipei Times
Date: Apr 27, 2019
By: AFP, TAIPEI
A Hong Kong bookseller, who had disappeared into Chinese custody for half a year,
Hong Kong bookseller Lam Wing-kei poses for a photograph at the Tonsan bookstore in Taipei yesterday.Photo: Sam Yeh / AFP
yesterday said that he has fled to Taiwan after the financial hub announced plans to approve extraditions to China.
Lam Wing-kei (林榮基), the former manager of Hong Kong-based Causeway Bay Books (銅鑼灣圖書), was one of five publishers selling gossip-filled tomes on China’s leaders who vanished in late 2015, resurfacing in Chinese custody and making televised confessions.
He was allowed back to Hong Kong in June 2016 on condition that he pick up a hard drive listing the bookstore’s customers and return to China.
Instead, he skipped bail and went public with explosive testimony detailing how he was blindfolded by police after crossing the border into Shenzhen, China, and spent months being interrogated. [FULL STORY]
