RTHK employee threatens to lift lid on political interference
Employee says he will lift the lid on political interference at the government broadcaster as long as he is immune from legal liability
The RTHK staffer at the heart of the row with the government's broadcasting director yesterday threatened to blow the political interference scandal wide open with more allegations - but only if legislators set up a special select committee to hear evidence.
Forever Sze Wing-yuen, the acting assistant director of TV and corporate business, said "unprecedented political missions" existed.
He refused to elaborate and said he would only go into details in a Legislative Council select committee that gives him immunity from legal liability.
Moments earlier, Roy Tang Yun-kwong, the government broadcasting director whose open criticism of editorial processes has sparked fury at RTHK, made a public apology after what he described as an "excellent" meeting with staff.
Tang - who took the job 18 months ago - refused to step down and said he was carrying out his duty "as appointed to do so by the Civil Service Bureau".
"I am sure I have been serving dutifully," Tang said in a seemingly confident mood after the two-hour, closed-door meeting.