WHEN: Sunday May 7, 2017, 2:00 p.m.
WHERE: Chinese Chamber of Commerce, 33 Bowery, Suit C-202. New York, NY 10002
Mr. Lam Wing-Kee is one of five booksellers who were forced disappeared in 2015 and later paraded on China’s television. Mr. Lam founded Causeway Bay Books 「銅鑼灣書店」in 1994 and sold it to Mighty Current Media Company 巨 流傳媒有限公司 in 2014. On October 24, 2015 Mr Lam entered China and was detained. On June 14, 2016, he was finally released back to Hong Kong with the instructions to contact Hong Kong police to drop his missing person case, retrieve evidence for China’s authorities and return to China to be under residential surveillance. Instead, on June 16, he decided to go public about his ordeal.
Mr. Lam has been invited to the U.S. Congressional-Executive Commission on China as one of their witnesses for the hearing scheduled in Washington D.C. on May 3.