Missing Hong Kong booksellers detained in China
By Violet
Law and Jonathan
Kaiman Contact
Reporter
Chinese authorities announced that three Hong Kong booksellers are under investigation for
“illegal activities,” ratcheting up suspicion
that they’ve fallen victim to a Beijing-backed crackdown on the city’s
publishing industry.
Lui Por, Cheung Chi Ping and Lam Wing Kee
have been placed in criminal detention in
mainland China , Hong Kong police announced Thursday night, citing a
letter from the Interpol Guangdong liaison office of the Guangdong Provincial
Public Security Department. They had been missing for 100 days.
Hong Kong, a semiautonomous
Chinese territory of 7.3 million people, is geographically joined to southern China 's Guangdong
In recent months, five Hong Kong
booksellers have gone missing under mysterious circumstances; all are connected
to the Mighty Current publishing house and its bookstore, Causeway Bay Books,
which specializes in titles that irritate China
The booksellers’ disappearances have raised
concern in Hong Kong , which has remained
relatively insulated from a wave of political crackdowns on the mainland.
“Every morning, Hong Kong people wake up to
another news headline of utter absurdity,” said
Jason Ng, a columnist and author of “Umbrellas
in Bloom,” a book chronicling the Occupy
movement, a massive pro-democracy protest that consumed the city in late 2014.
“There is one clumsy lie covering another clumsy lie every day. And the plot
gets more and more farfetched.”
Structure of the Lead：
WHO: three Hong Kong booksellers
WHEN:
WHAT:
WHERE: HongKong
WHY: illegal activities
HOW: detain
Key words:
1. ratcheting: 棘輪效應
2. detention:拘留
3. semiautonomous: 半自動
4. utter: 說出
5. absurdity: 荒謬
6. columnist:專欄作家
7. chronicling:記載
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