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Lam Wing-kee is a name that should go down in history. That is how Hong Kong-based veteran journalist Frank Ching put it a year ago when describing Lam as a “brave bookseller who stood up to tyranny.”

Lam is in Vancouver this week talking about how he and four colleagues at a bookstore and publishing company in Hong Kong were abducted and detained for months by mainland Chinese authorities in late 2015 for selling books with juicy rumours about the private lives of leaders in Beijing.

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The “disappearing” Causeway Bay booksellers, as they became known, rocked Hong Kong’s sense of autonomy, and the shock reverberated to many overseas communities.

The other four booksellers haven’t spoken publicly about what happened. Three of them were allowed to return to Hong Kong after a few months, but haven’t said much about what happened. The last bookseller, Gui Minhai, a Swedish national who was holidaying away from Hong Kong in Thailand when he was taken by Chinese agents, is still in detention.