"A statement issued by the Ningbo Public Security Bureau said Lam had broken his bail terms by failing to return to the mainland for further investigation after his initial eight months in detention, Hong Kong’s Ming Pao newspaper reported. Lam was one of five booksellers whose disappearances over the past year have been linked to the Causeway Bay Books store that had specialised in publishing and selling books about China’s leaders, including President Xi Jinping... The disappearances have prompted fears that mainland Chinese authorities may be using 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."
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Thursday, July 7, 2016
Bookseller abductions: China demands Lam Wing-kee return from Hong Kong; Reuters via Guardian, 7/5/16
Reuters via Guardian; Bookseller abductions: China demands Lam Wing-kee return from Hong Kong:
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