Protests and Tensions Escalate in Hong Kong over Booksellers’ Captivity

I have published a new Banned Books Awareness article.

Thousands of residents marched in protest on the anniversary in defiance of Chinese authorities over the abductions of several Hong Kong booksellers.
The 61-year-old bookseller said that he was picked up at the border near Shenzhen before being blindfolded, handcuffed, and taken by train 13 hours to the port city of Ningbo, where he was forced to sign a contract stating he would not contact his family nor hire a lawyer, and was then interrogated for his role at his bookstore. “We don’t need to argue over it”, he was told, because a “special investigation unit” would be handling his case.

Read on and Share the Knowledge:
http://bbark.deepforestproductions.com/column/2016/07/02/protests-and-tensions-escalate-in-hong-kong-over-booksellers-captivity/

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