- Lam Wing-kee, the former Causeway Bay Books manager who became a symbol of resistance after his 2015 abduction, has died in Taipei at 70 after a cancer relapse.
- He moved to Taiwan, reopened Causeway Bay Books in Taipei in 2020, and publicly exposed his abduction and forced TV confession—an act praised by Taiwan’s president.
- His case highlighted worries about Beijing’s reach into Hong Kong and the erosion of freedoms, which have tightened further under national security laws.
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