Lam Wing-kee (Chinese: 林榮基; Cantonese Yale: Lám Wìhng gēi, born December 1955) is a Hong Kong businessman and book seller.
His wife filed a missing persons report with the police on 5 November and his family received a telephone call from him several hours later in which he refused to reveal his whereabouts.
[2] On 4 February 2016, provincial authorities in Guangdong confirmed that Lam and two other members had been taken into custody in relation to a case involving Gui Minhai, writer and shareholder of Causeway Bay Books.
During his detention, he was subject to frequent interrogations each lasting around 40 minutes during which he was repeatedly accused of illegally sending banned books to mainland China.
[7] In April 2019, Lam went into a self-imposed exile in New Taipei City, Taiwan in response to the proposed Hong Kong extradition bill.
[9] A year later, in the face of physical threats and warnings over his choice of name,[10] he opened a small upstairs bookstore in the commercial district of Zhongshan, Taipei.
[13] President Tsai Ing-wen sent flowers and a congratulatory note on the day of the Taipei bookshop's opening,[14] and Legislative Yuan speaker You Si-kun and Democratic Progressive Party secretary-general Luo Wen-jia were in attendance.