Lam Wing-kee, the Hong Kong bookseller who said Chinese authorities held him for months, forced him to record scripted confessions, and sent him back to retrieve customer records from Causeway Bay Books, has died in Taiwan. He was 70.
Lam died Thursday evening at MacKay Memorial Hospital in Taipei after a cancer relapse, Taiwan’s Central News Agency reported.
Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council expressed condolences and said it would help Lam’s family and Pastor Huang Chun-sheng handle funeral arrangements, according to Taiwanese reports.
Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te said in a Facebook post after Lam’s death that Lam had reopened Causeway Bay Books in Taipei as a place where Hong Kong people could gather, speak, and support one another….
Lam Wing-kee, Hong Kong Bookseller Who Broke Silence on China Detention, Dies at 70 in Taiwan
