Before books are deemed unlawful, lawyers should read them. I should know, I was once a censor in Hong Kong
Hong Kong Free Press HKFP - 2023-06-03T03:00:00.000Z

Over 30 years ago, I was a book censor for a short time when I worked for Hong Kong’s justice minister.  In the autumn of 1988, Salman Rushdie’s book, The Satanic Verses, was published. The book was a publishing sensation for all the wrong reasons. It contained chapters that fictionalised episodes in the prophet Mohammed’s […] Read this story