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Kidnapped HK Publishers an Alarming Threat to Free Speech

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John Berthelsen
Nov 14, 2015
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The disappearance of four Hong Kong-based pro-democracy publishers from a vacation home in Thailand, apparently after being kidnaped by Chinese police in October, is alarming on several different levels – that Beijing has no problems kidnapping critics on foreign soil and that Hong Kong may no longer be a free press sanctuary.

It is also an indication of…

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