Followed by strangers, bookseller Lam Wing-kee pulls out of July 1 march fearing ‘serious threat’ to personal safety
Meanwhile, Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office director Wang Guangya accuses Lam of ‘destroying one country, two systems’
A top Beijing official for Hong Kong has accused bookseller Lam Wing-kee of “destroying one country, two systems”.
Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office director Wang Guangya said he had done so by “publishing books in Hong Kong attacking the mainland’s political system and then selling them on the mainland”.
Meanwhile the bookseller, whose revelations about his eight-month incarceration on the mainland shocked the city, has pulled out of Friday’s July 1 march for reasons of personal safety, as he feels that he is facing a “serious threat”.
Democratic Party lawmaker Albert Ho Chun-yan, who had been assisting Lam, said the latter decided to pull out because he had been followed by strangers over the past few days.
“This morning, I got a telephone call from Mr Lam Wing-kee. He told me personally that he observed in the past few days he had been followed by strangers,” Ho told the press at 2.50pm in Victoria Park, ahead of the march.
