The HRIC Daily Brief is a daily selection of news stories and commentary related to human rights in China, drawn from Chinese- and English-language news and online media sources that we monitor daily. In addition to headlines and source links, HRIC also provides English translation of Chinese headlines.

Wednesday, January 06, 2016

Hong Kong (香港)

Briton among Hong Kong publishers who vanished after “planning book on Xi Jinping's love life”
The Telegraph, January 5, 2016
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/hongkong/12081920/Riddle-over-missing-Hong-Kong-publisher-deepens-after-he-writes-to-say-he-is-fine.html

【賣禁書被失蹤】港PageOne全線停售政治敏感書籍 ([Disappearance of sellers of banned books] HK PageOne bookstores pull politically sensitive titles from shelves)
Apple Daily, January 5, 2016
http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/realtime/china/20160105/54612627

Related:
Books banned in mainland China sell well in Taiwan, thanks to mainland visitors
South China Morning Post, January 5, 2016
http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/1898224/books-banned-mainland-china-sell-well-taiwan-thanks-mainland