{"id":76818,"date":"2026-03-25T12:14:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T03:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/25\/hong-kong-bookstore-staff-arrested-jimmy-lai-biography"},"modified":"2026-03-25T12:14:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T03:14:52","slug":"hong-kong-bookstore-staff-arrested-for-allegedly-selling-seditious-jimmy-lai-biography-broadcaster-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76818","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong bookstore staff arrested for allegedly selling \u2018seditious\u2019 Jimmy Lai biography, broadcaster reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Owner of Book Punch store and three staff accused of selling copies of a biography of Jimmy Lai, a jailed pro-democracy activist and publisher<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong police arrested a bookstore owner and three shopkeepers on Tuesday for allegedly selling \u201cseditious\u201d publications including a biography of jailed media tycoon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/jimmy-lai?page=3\">Jimmy Lai<\/a>, broadcaster TVB reported.<\/p>\n<p>The owner of the Book Punch store, Pong Yat-ming, and three staff were accused of selling copies of The Troublemaker, a biography of Lai by one of his former business directors, Mark Clifford, TVB reported.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/25\/hong-kong-bookstore-staff-arrested-jimmy-lai-biography\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Owner of Book Punch store and three staff accused of selling copies of a biography of Jimmy Lai, a jailed pro-democracy activist and publisherHong Kong police arrested a bookstore owner and three shopkeepers on Tuesday for allegedly selling \u201cseditious\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,48,3034],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-jimmy-lai"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76819,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76818\/revisions\/76819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}