Hong Kong Law Under Beijing's Shadow

HONG KONG - Where is Zhou Yongjun? A key figure in the 1989 Tiananmen Square uprising against the Chinese government, the 42-year-old dissident simply disappeared after traveling from Macau to Hong Kong on September 28 last year and hasn't been seen since. Zhou, who now lives in the United States and holds a Green Card entitling him to work there, was reportedly traveling on a forged Malaysian passport under a false name with the hope of visiting his family on the mainland.

Hong Kong authorities apparently seized him on his arrival from Macau. After that, his story turns into a dark mystery whose uncovered secrets could have profound implications for the "one country, two systems" formula that has governed the former British and Portuguese colonies of Hong Kong and Macau since