Lam Wing-kee, a Hong Kong bookseller who fled to Taiwan in 2019 after being detained by China in 2015 for selling content deemed critical of Beijing, died Thursday at the age of 70.

Lam, who eventually moved his Causeway Bay Books to Taiwan, was one of five booksellers who disappeared in 2015 and resurfaced across border.

‘I want to express my deepest condolences to his family, friends and all those who care about freedom and democracy in Hong Kong,’ William Lai says in Facebook post.