PhotoHONG KONG — The metal door of Causeway Bay Bookstore is locked, just as it was month after month after the disappearances last year of five Hong Kong booksellers. Four of the booksellers, who all served months in detention in mainland China, have returned to Hong Kong. The report says many Hong Kong-based publishers of China-focused political books are finding it harder to find printers. Many people in Hong Kong were alarmed when one of the booksellers, Lee Bo, a British citizen, disappeared from a Hong Kong street in late December, only to show up weeks later in mainland China. But the success of these so-called localists in the September elections, the PEN report suggests, may be due in part to the Hong Kong public’s reaction to the bookseller case.

Source: New York Times November 04, 2016 21:00 UTC