Dissident Hong Kong bookseller Lam Wing-kee passes away at 70

A group of mourners gathers outside a bookstore in Hong Kong, holding candles and flowers in remembrance of Lam Wingkee, a renowned prodemocracy bookseller who recently passed away.

Lam was one of the five booksellers who disappeared in late 2015, allegedly abducted by Chinese authorities due to their publication of books critical of the Chinese Communist Party. His subsequent return to Hong Kong in 2016 and his vocal opposition to the erosion of civil liberties made him a symbol of the fight for … Read more