Missing Man Back in China, Confessing to Fatal Crime
Source: New York Times
HONG KONG — A Hong Kong publisher last seen in October outside his condominium in Thailand surfaced Sunday on Chinese television, tearfully confessing to violating his probation in a fatal drunken-driving accident and saying that he had voluntarily returned to China to face justice.
The publisher, Gui Minhai, a naturalized Swedish citizen, was one of five missing employees of Mighty Current Media, a Hong Kong publishing company and bookstore specializing in books about the sex lives and corruption of China’s top leaders. The books are popular with tourists from the mainland.
Another Mighty Current editor, Lee Bo, a British citizen, vanished from the streets here on Dec. 30, calling his wife days later from mainland China to tell her he was cooperating with an investigation. The disappearance of the five Mighty Current employees led to the closing of the publishing company and bookstore.
Hong Kong, while part of mainland China since 1997, has a separate government and legal system and guarantees civil rights such as freedom of speech and due process of law.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/18/world/asia/missing-man-back-in-china-confessing-to-fatal-crime.html?_r=0
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