Four of the Hong Kong booksellers who vanished last year before reappearing in mainland police custody have admitted to smuggling critical political works into China, according to videotaped confessions and a Chinese news report.
Gui Minhai, one of the owners of Causeway Bay Books, said in a video broadcast by Hong Kong’s Phoenix TV on Sunday night that the sale of such books was “not legal” in China and that he and his colleagues had circumvented the rules.
“After several discussions, we considered ways to avoid Chinese official inspection,” he said in videotaped comments, the source of which was not revealed. “These included changing the book covers and putting the books into dark nylon bags to avoid X-ray inspection.”
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