Last month, Bao Zhuoxuan, the son of the imprisoned Chinese human rights lawyer Wang Yu, was detained near Myanmar’s border with China after apparently trying to flee to the US.
“This incident is very concerning as it comes after the sentencing to 10 years of Hong Kong publisher Yiu Manting last year, and the trial last week of Hong Kong journalists Wang Jianmin and Guo Zhongxiao,” Wang said, referring to the case of two Hong Kong residents charged with running an illegal business in China after mailing copies of a political magazine to addresses on the mainland.
One member of the publishing industry, who requested anonymity for fear of reprisals, said: “The people behind Sage Communications have long been hated by the princelings, absolutely hated, because their books are so sensationalistic.
“They have been going to former mistresses asking them to write autobiographies, and in many cases they have also published made-up life stories of prominent politicians. But what is happening to them is a huge problem: they have been operating for years with no problems, but now the bookstore is getting into trouble and the people are getting into trouble.”
The source said publishers in the former British colony now felt under siege. “We used to be fine in Hong Kong. Now we get menacing calls from people claiming to be mainland authorities, saying we have to stop publication. Self-censorship is becoming rampant,” they added.
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