A hong kong publisher has suspended plans for a book criticizing chinese president xi jinping, a sign that the recent disappearance of five booksellers has exacted a heavy toll on the citys. Book on chinese president pulled as fears grow for missing. The bookstore sold a number of political books that are considered sensitive and banned in mainland china. The book sits among other paperbacks promising more scandalous anecdotes about chinese leaders love lives in a bookstore in causeway bay, hong kongs bustling shopping district. A hong kong book publisher, whose mysterious disappearance caused international uproar, has suddenly reappeared on chinese television. Hong kong a court in china has sentenced to 10 years in prison a hong kongbased book publisher with swedish citizenship whose secretive detention in china ignited international.
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