Hong Kong Authorities Target Booksellers

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Click to expand Image Leticia Wong, a former pro-democracy district councillor, at her bookstore in Hong Kong, June 20, 2025. © 2025 Chan Long Hei/AP Photo As the annual Hong Kong Book Fair opens this week, two of the city’s best-known independent bookstores, Elmbook and Luckwin, won’t be there.

On July 2, authorities barred them from exhibiting. Soon…

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Primary source: Human Rights Watch News · July 14, 2026

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