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Stuart Lau

Lee Po’s entry to mainland
Lam: Lee admitted he was abducted to the mainland. He entered the mainland involuntarily, as he told me when I met him after I returned to Hong Kong. He had to say what he said because his relatives are in Fujian
Lee: When I was chatting with Lam Wing-kee, I did not talk about how I returned to the mainland, and so I didn’t say I went to the mainland involuntarily or anything similar.
Bookseller Lam Wing-kee leads thousands in protest through streets of Hong Kong
Lee Po’s handling of customer details
Lam: Lee passed a list of 400 to 500 customers to mainland authorities.
Lee: I never used the computer at Causeway Bay Books and had never printed out any lists of customers, much less passing any lists to mainland police.
Key figure in Hong Kong bookseller row Lee Po speaks out over friend’s explosive kidnap claims
Mainland girlfriend on relationship
Hu: [Lam] lied about the legality of mailing banned books on the mainland and paid me every time I helped him deliver the books through mail.
Lam: I do not want to confront her as she would not be able to hear what I say on the mainland. She could not say things voluntarily there, so I don’t want to bring further trouble to her. I hope she would be treated leniently on the mainland.
Character assassination? Accusations fly as bookseller Lam Wing-kee’s lover calls him a liar and ‘not a man’ for tricking her
Business partner Lui Por on televised confession
Lam: [Some officers] gave me a script to read to confess on mainland TV. I had to follow the script. If I did not follow it strictly, they would ask for a re-take.
Lui Por: There was absolutely no such thing as coerced confessions or pre-arranged media interviews with a script. I never imagined Lam Wing-kee was such a dishonest person. He should bravely admit his guilt and shoulder the legal responsibility.
Lam: He was forced to say that as his wife was from the northeastern part of China.
Cheung Chi-ping: Lam’s press conference was premeditated and an attack on the one country, two systems principle
Lam: His wife is in Dongguan city, Guangdong province so he had to say so
Confrontation with Ningbo authorities
Lam: I wanted to commit suicide in Ningbo as the solitary confinement and interrogation was so stressful.
Ningbo authorities: He stayed there voluntarily as he had family disputes in Hong Kong.
Lam: I had separated from my wife for some years already.


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A summary of the key claims made by bookseller Lam Wing-kee and the counter-arguments made in response
