Lam said on Thursday, unknown Mandarin-speaking men abducted him from a busy street in Cantonese-speaking Hong Kong and rendered him unconscious. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Howard Lam shows his stapled thighs during a press conference in Hong Kong on Friday. Wu said Hong Kong’s biggest pro-democracy party would provide a full account after the police concluded their investigation. Lam’s case has raised concerns that Beijing was tightening its hold on Hong Kong, after other recent cases including the secret detention of a group of Hong Kong booksellers and a Chinese-Canadian tycoon whose whereabouts are unknown. In both cases, mainland security agents are suspected of taking them across the border, in violation of Hong Kong’s constitution.

Source: The Guardian August 15, 2017 10:14 UTC