Hong Kong does not have a “prohibited book list”, but bookmakers can be arrested for selling books: the National Security Act imposes the responsibility for censorship on every bookstore

The Hong Kong Police Department said that it was not necessary to establish a “prohibited book list” in the past. At the same time, the bookkeepers could be taken away by the National Security Police for selling a wrong book. On July 15, the Hong Kong Police Department raided a search into two independent bookstores in Hong Kong, taking five people and seizing a large number of books. The police said the publications were suspected of inciting hatred against the government, the judiciary and the law enforcement agency. Five books were later released for bail, and the case was still being investigated. This was the third round of national security enforcement actions against Hong Kong Independent Bookstores in four months. The Hong Kong Police Department chief Deng Beng Jian’s response to the decision was not to set up a ban list and what was not even worth it, because it was a