Previously missing Hong Kong bookseller Lam Wing-kee holds a news conference with local lawmaker Albert Ho at the Legislative Council in Hong Kong on June 16. The Hong Kong bookseller’s dramatic tale of abduction and psychological torture by Chinese authorities may have only confirmed what everyone already suspected, but the details have still horrified many people in Hong Kong. “This is the bottom line of the Hong Kong people. The men were among five booksellers who vanished last year from China, Hong Kong and Thailand, before surfacing in Chinese custody amid an investigation into their publishing business. The plight of the other booksellers still in mainland China is extremely worrying.

Source: Washington Post June 17, 2016 09:43 UTC