Thursday, February 4, 2016

China Indicates Fate of Three Missing Hong Kong Booksellers

 
Reuters, 04/02 17:29 CET

HONG KONG (Reuters) – Chinese police have confirmed for the first time that three of five Hong Kong booksellers who went missing were being investigated for “illegal activities” in China, according to a letter sent to Hong Kong’s police on Thursday.

The disappearances have prompted fears that mainland Chinese authorities may be using shadowy tactics that erode the “one country, two systems” formula under which Hong Kong has been governed since its return to China from British rule in 1997.

The three men; Lui Por, Cheung Chi-ping and Lam Wing-kee who were linked to the Causeway Bay Books store, had “criminal compulsory measures” imposed on them, Chinese police in the southern province of Guangdong bordering Hong Kong told Hong Kong police in a letter on Thursday.

This was the first indication by mainland Chinese authorities as to the fate of this trio since they were reported missing last November, without giving any other detail of their location or condition other than that they are in China.

Hong Kong police referred to the letter from the Chinese police in a statement but did not make it public in full. 

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Source: Euronews

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