Chapter 14 Reddening Hong Kong (1)

According to the original Sino-British agreement, Hong Kong should have democratically elected the Chief Executive in 2015 but Xi Jinping has wished to control the Chief Executive who must listen to him. So he has not allowed the public to nominate the Chief Executive candidate directly, but it has been through a nominating committee composed of 1200 people under his control. This is obviously the “birdcage democracy” of the Chinese Communist Party; it is in fact not a real democratic election. Xi Jinping is afraid of losing control of Hong Kong and is even more afraid that democracy in Hong Kong will affect the demand of the mainland people for democracy. Hong Kong must survive under his tyranny and “one country, two systems” has been declared null and void.

Hong Kong has long been under British rule and has a tradition of freedom of speech and publication. When Xi came to power in 2013, some books, critical of Xi Jinping , such as “Xi Jinping Changes Everything in China”, “Xi Jinping: The Grand Plan and the Calculation”, “The Xi Era: China in Danger Again”, and “The Empire of the Red Sun”, etc. were published in Hong Kong . In 2015, a book publisher in Hong Kong prepared to publish the book “Xi Jinping and His Lovers” exposing his scandalous inappropriate relationships with women.

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Before 2015, Hong Kong bookstores had been selling books on Mao and his women, as well as books on Jiang Zemin’s scandals and the CCP had not interfered but when it came to Xi Jinping, he wanted to make himself look like the pure emperor, not allowing books on his scandals to be published and actually wielded a sword and sent police across the border to illegally kidnap the publisher and capture him for trial and persecution inside the mainland. In October 2015, Chinese communist agents were sent to Thailand to kidnap Hong Kong publisher Gui Minhai, a Swedish citizen who was taken back to China for interrogation. Two other employees of Mighty Current Media Company Limited, Lui Bo and Zhang Zhiping and the owner of the Causeway Bay bookstore in Hong Kong, Lin Rongji, were also kidnapped in October 2015 and taken back to the mainland for trial.

In late December 2015, Paul Lee, the largest shareholder of Hong Kong’s Mighty Current Media Company Limited, was kidnapped by nine men on Hong Kong’s Chai Wan Road and pushed into a seven-passenger car to be driven to the mainland for trial. Paul Lee is a British citizen. In order to cover up the illegal crimes of the CCC, the CCP has made the rumor that Paul Lee and the others were caught sneaking into Shenzhen to visit prostitutes.

Lin Rongji, a bookstore owner who was taken to the mainland for trial, was imprisoned in June 2016 but escaped to address a press conference to reveal that he was transferred blindfolded from Shenzhen to Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, where he was held for five months, tortured 20-30 times, forced to “confess guilt on television” and forced to sign a waiver to find a lawyer and contact his family. He was persecuted by the task force and he tried to commit suicide several times.

On June 16, 2016, at 6:45 pm, Lin Rongji escaped from the control of 2 special case officers and contacted Hong Kong MP Albert Ho to assist him for a press conference to explain the truth of his abduction. On October 24, 2015, he was kidnapped by 11 people, pushed into a 7-person car, his documents were confiscated and he was interrogated about his personal information at a police station in Shenzhen; he was made to sit in a prisoner’s chair all night and was not allowed to sleep. All precautions were taken to prevent him from suicide.

During his 5 months in Ningbo detention center, Lin Rongji was guarded 24 hours a day by 6 groups of special investigators and was arraigned 20-30 times, always 2 arraignments were outside asking him to identify the client who had purchased the book. He was forced to make a confession video under the arrangement of “a director with lines” (the confession video was aired on Phoenix in February 2016)

In April 2016, Lin Rongji was transferred from Ningbo to Shaoguan, Guangdong, where he was placed under library surveillance and had no freedom of movement. During his stay in Shaoguan, he was taken to Kirin Villa in Shenzhen to have tea with Li Bo, Lui Bo and Zhang Zhiping who were under imprisonment and was monitored and videotaped. During his stay in Shenzhen at 1:00 a.m. one night, he was seduced by two girls who were assigned to tap on his door and solicit him for sex. He was then charged with “prostitution”.