A Hong Kong bookseller who published critical volumes about Chinese leaders was kidnapped by Chinese agents while vacationing in Thailand in 2015. Now, he's been sentenced to 10 years in prison for providing intelligence to people overseas.
Freed Hong Kong bookseller Lam Wing-kee stands next to a placard with a picture of bookseller Gui Minhai, in front of his book store in Hong Kong in June 2016.Freed Hong Kong bookseller Lam Wing-kee stands next to a placard with a picture of bookseller Gui Minhai, in front of his book store in Hong Kong in June 2016.
Shortly after his disappearance in Thailand, Gui resurfaced in a nationally-televised segment from China's state broadcaster, in which he said he had returned to China of his own volition to face manslaughter charges in a deadly 2003 drunk driving accident Gui had allegedly been part of. Around the same that Gui was kidnapped in Thailand, Lam was stopped at the border of Hong Kong and mainland China, blindfolded, and sent by train to China where he endured eight months of interrogation. In total, five booksellers in Hong Kong were spirited to mainland China that year and questioned about their publishing activities.
Lam was allowed to return to Hong Kong after his interrogation ended, by promising to give his captors information about his bookstore's authors and customers. Instead, he went public with his kidnapping as soon as he reached Hong Kong. Lam nowGui wasn't so lucky. Sometime before 2018, he was released from custody but kept under house arrest in the Chinese city of Ningbo, where he was born.
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