The case brought to mind the disappearance of five Hong Kong booksellers last year, with both incidents raising fears about the erosion of civil liberties in Hong Kong.
?Beijing officials have obviously decided they no longer need to keep up appearances about nonintervention in Hong Kong affairs,? wrote Suzanne Pepper, a scholar of Hong Kong elections.
In an extraordinary move in November, Beijing intervened in a Hong Kong court case to block the seating of two politicians in the legislature after they pledged allegiance to the ?Hong Kong nation? during their swearing-in ceremony and inserted an anti-China snub into their oaths of office.
Since the 2014 protests, China has tightened its grip over Hong Kong.
PhotoThen, in January, a Chinese-born billionaire was taken from his apartment at a luxury hotel in Hong Kong and spirited into police custody in mainland China, even though mainland law enforcement officials are barred from operating across the border.
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