H.K. bookseller who was targeted by Beijing dies at 70 in Taiwan

Lam Wing-kee, a Hong Kong bookseller who fled to Taiwan in 2019 to avoid potential extradition to China for selling banned titles, died of lung cancer at a Taipei hospital on Thursday, local media reported. He was 70.Lam disappeared in 2015 while managing Causeway Bay Books in Hong Kong, along with four other booksellers. In fact, he had been detained in Guangdong Province for selling books banned in mainland China due to their content related to scandals involving Chinese leaders.In 2016, he was conditionally released after nearly eight months of detention and allowed to return to Hong Kon…READ FULL ARTICLE