Police round up Hong Kong booksellers as China widens crackdown

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Democracy Dies in Darkness

After pro-democracy protests roiled the city in 2019, Beijing cracked down on freedom of speech, and restrictions have continued to tighten.

July 15, 2026 at 5:18 p.m. EDT6 minutes ago

An employee of the independent Have a Nice Stay bookstore in Hong Kong is detained by police on Wednesday. (Tommy Wang/AFP/Getty Images)

Police in Hong Kong arrested five booksellers over alleged “seditious” material on Wednesday, as Beijing imposes increasingly strict control over the once-autonomous territory in successive free speech crackdowns.

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