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Lam Wing-kee

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Lam was allowed to return to Hong Kong from the mainland, eight months after he disappeared, to fetch information on the customers of the book store. On 13 June, Lam cancelled his missing person's report with the police, repudiating police assistance. Three days later, on the day he was due to return
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along with Gui Minhai in which they confessed to conspiring with Gui to send banned books to mainland customers and expressed remorse for their "illegal book trading". Lam, further claiming Gui's books were fabrication, having been compiled from information obtained from the internet and magazines,
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of several members of the book store. His wife filed a missing persons report with the police on 5 November and his family received a telephone call from him several hours later in which he refused to reveal his whereabouts. Upon learning that he had contacted his family, the police informed them
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Lam is the founder of Causeway Bay Books. He habitually spent long hours at the bookshop and occasionally slept there. On 24 October 2015, he went missing, as part of the
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A year later, in the face of physical threats and warnings over his choice of name, he opened a small upstairs bookstore in the commercial district of
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of course, but there is also a restriction. For instance, you like to sing at night while the neighbor is sleeping causing
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Content in this edit is translated from the existing Chinese Knowledge (XXG) article at ]; see its history for attribution.
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sent flowers and a congratulatory note on the day of the Taipei bookshop's opening, and Legislative Yuan speaker
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during which he claimed that he was abducted by the mainland officials at the Hong Kong-China border control in
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were in attendance. In 2022, it was reported that Lam had applied for permanent residency in Taiwan.
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confirmed that Lam and two other members had been taken into custody in relation to a case involving
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When asked whether he can see that the government of Hong Kong has protected them, he replied "No".
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acknowledged that the books "generated lots of rumours in society and brought a bad influence".
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and most well known for its provision of politically related publications. In late 2015, he
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in October 2015. He revealed that he had been transported handcuffed and blindfolded to
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along with four other staff members of the book store, sparking international concern.
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will not have any ideological changes due to the final results of this war, even if
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to the mainland, he held a press briefing in the presence of legislator
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lose the power but another Russian dictator will come, so he supports
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Chen, Pei-bing; Chiu, Tsu-yin; Kao, Evelyn (6 November 2022).
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is ambiguous. In an interview by Canadian media, he said
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In April 2019, Lam went into a self-imposed exile in
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