Ex-HK bookseller Lam Wing-kee, detained by China in 2015, dies in Taiwan at 70

Lam Wing-kee, a Hong Kong bookseller detained by Chinese authorities in twenty fifteen, has died in Taiwan at seventy years old. According to NPR News, Lam was one of five staff members from Causeway Bay Books who disappeared in twenty fifteen, in what became an international incident. After his release, he publicly detailed his detention and became a key witness to the case. His death closes a chapter in a story that raised global concerns about freedom of expression in Hong Kong.

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