Missing Hong Kong Bookseller Confirmed to Be in China

Chinese police have confirmed that a Hong Kong publisher of books critical of the Communist Party who disappeared from the city in late December is in China, ending weeks of silence about his whereabouts.
Police in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong sent a letter to Hong Kong authorities stating that the bookseller, Lee Bo, was in China, Hong Kong police said on the government’s website.
Hong Kong has been pressing China for information about Lee since he disappeared from a warehouse for his bookshop in the city.
The case has raised concern that China is encroaching on Hong Kong’s autonomy enshrined in the “one country, two systems” principle that guarantees the independence of the city’s legal system and liberties such as freedom of speech.