Hong Kong Booksellers disappear after plans to publish banned books

[Kakanucks]

Briton confirmed missing as mystery deepens over Hong Kong booksellers

So, not a lot of reporting in english news on this incident.

I get most of my information from Chinese (Hong Kong) news reports.

Some brief information:

• 5 shareholders of a bookstore that sells books banned in China have disappeared one after another
• The latest one, Bo Lee, apparently faxed a letter to his coworker AFTER his wife reported him missing, Translation in quote.

  Quote

  Mr. Chan,
  I have something urgent to take care of, and cannot disclose the details to the public, so I returned to the mainland my own way to cooperate with concerned parties in an investigation, and it might take a while.
  Please continue the operation of the bookstore based on the contract. You could contact my wife for book payments [contact info blocked] or you could pay them first. Or you could wait for me to come back to clear the amount.
  I am in good condition and everything is normal. I am sorry to trouble you with the bookstore operation. Thanks much!

  Lee Bo

• Public thinks Lee was abducted back to China by Chinese authorities, no records of departing at Immigrations.
• After these incidents, PageOne (bookstore chain in Hong Kong) has pulled all banned books from their Hong Kong International Airport locations.

Conspiracy? Fear Mongering from China to show who's in charge? If so, its working I guess.

I don't know what is happening, but from personal experience, Hong Kong has become a $&!#hole the past few years. Public is fed up with the changes the government is making, limiting their freedom, (example: Basic Law Article 23)

China is like the birth mother that gave her child (Hong Kong) away for adoption, then coming back after the child has grown up and matured, then forcing her ways and beliefs onto them.

EFF OFF LADY would be my response, and pretty much the response of HK majority

 

[Lil B From The Pack]

RIP

[Scottish⑦Canuck]

I better not post anything remotely critical of China in here.

Off to Hong Kong in March and don't fancy getting kidnapped.

[Twilight Sparkle]

2 minutes ago, Lil B From The Pack said:

RIP

it's a work

on a side note: i just realized kakanucks' sig consist of masturbating, twerking bunnies x__x

[Lancaster]

Lots of news in China gets under-reported.  Just check out China Uncensored on youtube... tons and tons of material that's blocked from the media due to China's soft-power. 

Even family members of youtube commentators have been detained. 

 

I just hope that I can see the fall of the Chinese Communist Party within my lifetime. 

[Gurn]

As long as it is an orderly transition. If the CCP falls abruptly it could lead to a repeat of the Russian mob taking over a country Chinese style.

[Kakanucks]

I don't see the CCP falling anytime soon. Maybe in another 10 years or so, let the old generation die out abit.

 

[theminister]

I'd be curious to know the list of banned books.

Are they contemporary or the traditionally threatening ones like 'Utopia' and 'The Republic?'

[MovesLikeDatsyuk]

Didn't some Billionaire disappear for a month and just pop up the other day. Saying he was working with authorities?

[nucklehead]

Yes, he is working in the rock pits with authorities on human rights and free speech.