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Lam Wing-kee, Defiant Bookseller, Passes Away | San Antonio News
Lam Wing-kee, the Hong Kong bookseller who became a global symbol of resistance against censorship and authoritarianism, has died at 70 in Taiwan after a cancer relapse. Once detained and forced to confess on state television, Lam’s courageous testimony in 2015 shattered official narratives and galvanized free speech advocates worldwide. After fleeing Hong Kong in 2019, he reopened his iconic Causeway Bay Books in Taipei, becoming a beacon of dissent. Taiwan’s president honored him as a defender of democracy, while Hong Kong’s tightening controls—recently enforced through arrests under the…
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