10-year prison sentence to former Hong Kong bookstore owner “Illegal reporting outside Japan” 16:14 on February 25, China
For a man who was running a bookstore handling books critical of the Chinese Communist Party in Hong Kong and detained by Chinese authorities, Hong Kong media reported a 10-year prison sentence for a Chinese court illegally providing information abroad. I told him I had given it.
Mr. Guan Hai, who ran a bookstore handling books critical of the Chinese Communist Party in Hong Kong, lost his place in Thailand where he stayed in 2015, and afterwards it became clear that he was detained in China. Was.
Mr. Katsura was sentenced to jail and sentenced to prison for allegedly causing a fatal traffic accident, but he was reportedly detained and again detained by Chinese authorities.
According to Hong Kong media, Mr. Katsura was sentenced to court in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, eastern China, on the 24th.
According to the court website and the Hong Kong media, Mr. Katsura was sentenced to 10 years in prison for illegally providing information outside the country, the trial is open to the public, and Mr. Katsura does not appeal on appeal It is a policy.
However, the details of Mr. Katsura's detention and the specific information provided were not disclosed.
Former manager of this bookstore, temporarily arrested in China and now living in Taiwan, says Eiji Hayashi, saying that it is strange to impose such a heavy penalty to ban certain books. .