The first missing bookseller returns: Lui Por in Hong Kong
Police said the Mighty Current associate asked that his missing report be cancelled
One of the five booksellers who went missing on the mainland last year quietly returned home yesterday and asked Hong Kong police to stop investigating him as a missing person.
A source told the Post that Lui Por, general manager of the Mighty Current publishing house which specialises in books critical of the Chinese Communist Party, was not handed over by mainland police to their Hong Kong counterparts.
Police were alerted after Lui crossed the border at the Lo Wu checkpoint and went home to Tai Wai. Officers later visited him.
“During the meeting, he told the officers that he was safe and he did not need any assistance from police,” the source said.
In an official statement, police said Lui had refused to disclose other details, but they would continue to follow his case, along with those of two of his publishing associates still being detained on the mainland.
Lui’s sudden reappearance in Hong Kong and refusal to explain his mysterious disappearance in October last year has added to speculation that mainland authorities pressured him to keep his mouth shut.