Over the last several months five employees from a Hong Kong publisher and bookseller have disappeared leaving little clue as there whereabouts or who is responsible. Agnes Chow a Hong Kong student activist who was involved with the Umbrella Movement during last years protests has spoken out through a video she posted on her Facebook page.
In her video message, Chow, a second-year student at Hong Kong’s Baptist University, hit out at Chinese authorities over the apparent abductions of five booksellers who specialised in tabloid-style tomes about the private lives of Communist party officials.
“I have an important message that I hope to spread to the world,” says Chow, who is also a prominent member of the student protest group Scholarism.
“Unlike mainland China, Hong Kong does not adopt authoritarian governance. Citizens who sell politically sensitive books are not supposed to be suppressed by any threats of disappearance and imprisonment, with the existence of freedom of press and speech.”
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