HK bookshop owner arrested over Jimmy Lai book: reportsAFP and AP, HONG KONGA rights group yesterday warned that Hong Kong was becoming “increasingly dystopian” after a bookstore owner and his staff were reportedly arrested on suspicion of selling seditious publications, including a biography of jailed pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai (黎智英). Officers searched the bookshop and seized materials, including The Toublemaker, a biography of Lai, who was last month sentenced to 20 years in prison for national security crimes. A notice that reads “taking a day off due to an unexpected situation; sorry for any inconvenience” is displayed outside independent bookstore Book Punch in Hong Kong yesterday. A government statement said the companies were dissolved and became “prohibited organizations,” warning that anyone associating with them would contravene the 2024 national security law. They were also found guilty of conspiring with others to publish seditious materials under a separate sedition law.

Source: Taipei Times March 25, 2026 20:12 UTC