Hong Kong booksellers face an uncertain future under new national security law
It’s been about a month since China passed the wide-ranging and vaguely worded national security law in Hong Kong in an effort to end the pro-democracy protests that have embroiled… Read more »
The EU is signaling that it will continue to pressure China for the release of Gui Minhai and Liu Xia
According to an Associated Press story that circulated widely last week, Donald Trump’s recent, stupid decision to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal will not spell the end of that arrangement: rather,… Read more »
An activist in Hong Kong has been convicted of throwing out library books as an act of protest
According to a report by Jasmine Siu in yesterday’s South China Morning Post, Hong Kong-based activist Alvin Cheng Kam-mun has been convicted of theft and fined HK$3,000 (about $385 in US money). The… Read more »
Will Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven bring Gui Minhai home?
For nearly two years now, we’ve been following the case of Gui Minhai, a Swedish publisher and bookseller who disappeared in Thailand in October 2015, only to resurface in state custody… Read more »