Lam Wing-kee, a former Hong Kong bookseller known for recounting his detention by Chinese authorities, dies in Taiwan at age 70, according to reports from multiple outlets citing Taiwanese media and CNA. Lam was seized in mainland China in 2015 after authorities detained him in connection with his work at Causeway Bay Books, where publications were considered critical of Beijing. Several reports note that he was among five people affiliated with the bookstore who disappeared in 2015.
After his detention, Lam later publicly described what he said were his experiences while held by Chinese authorities. In 2019, he moved to Taiwan, where he lived in later years. The South China Morning Post and Hong Kong Free Press report that he had lung cancer and, in the days before his death, was hospitalized in Taipei’s Mackay Memorial Hospital. His condition reportedly deteriorated, and he fell into a coma before being pronounced dead on Thursday evening.
