Hong Kong lawmaker says Chinese police kidnapped latest bookseller to go missing
A member of the territory's legislative council blames Beijing for the disappearance of five Hong Kong booksellers.
"We're terrified," says Claudia Mo, of the Civic Party. "If that could happen to publishers, it could happen to anyone."
The missing men are associates of the Causeway Bay Book Store. Last week, the shop's owner, Lee Bo, became the latest to vanish.
The issue went viral after a prominent student activist raised the alarm in a video posted to her Facebook page.
Mo dismisses rumours that Lee left Hong Kong voluntarily to visit prostitutes on the mainland.
"This is so sleazy and nasty. What this boils down to for Hong Kong is mainland Chinese police have come to Hong Kong to literally kidnap a political type whom they don't like and repatriated him without notifying the local authorities. That's completely against their promise of one country two systems."
"We believe that it's got something to do with their publishing business. They tend to write and publish banned political books — that are banned in China. Apparently they are trying to publish a new book which would contain saucy details of the Chinese president's younger life."
