(ANSA) – ROME, APRIL 25 – He had already challenged Beijing by selling
critical material to the Chinese leadership and era
also been in prison. Now, the Hong Kong bookseller Lam
Wing-kee returns to sell his books, but this time he chooses
to do it in Taiwan where from today it has reopened its bookshop, the
Causeway Bay Books, in Taipei, where – he says – “we still have the
right to read books. “He would have preferred an inauguration
without too much fanfare, with few people also because of the epidemic
of coronavirus. Lam, however, at the opening, in a building in the center
from the Taiwanese capital, found a reporter waiting for him,
photographers and supporters. The news is that the Hong bookseller
Kong does not give up and returns, one year after the start of the protests
in the former British colony. Lam Wing-kee was among the five booksellers
arrested in 2015 in Hong Kong for selling publications
criticism of the Chinese political elite. At first it had been given
for disappeared, vanished into thin air. It was known after it was
remained in detention for 400 days
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