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Former Hong Kong Bookseller Lam Wing-kee Dies of CancerFormer Hong Kong Bookseller Lam Wing-kee Dies of Cancer

7/3/2026

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Lam Wing-kee died at 70 in Taipei after his condition worsened at Mackay Memorial Hospital.
He was detained by Chinese agents in 2015 while running Causeway Bay Books, which sold titles critical of Chinese leadership.
He fled to Taiwan in 2019 and later announced stage-four lung cancer had returned.
The 2015 crackdown also caused four other booksellers to disappear and deepened public doubt about Beijing’s commitment to Hong Kong freedoms.

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Lam Wing-kee died at 70 in Taipei after his condition worsened at Mackay Memorial Hospital.
He was detained by Chinese agents in 2015 while running Causeway Bay Books, which sold titles critical of Chinese leadership.
He fled to Taiwan in 2019 and later announced stage-four lung cancer had returned.
The 2015 crackdown also caused four other booksellers to disappear and deepened public doubt about Beijing’s commitment to Hong Kong freedoms.