Character assassination? Accusations fly as bookseller Lam Wing-kee’s lover calls him a liar and ‘not a man’ for tricking her
A mainland woman named Hu said bookseller “completely ruined the image of Hong Kong men”, as fellow booksellers distance themselves from his story.
A woman claiming to be bookseller Lam Wing-kee’s girlfriend has unleashed a scathing attack on him, calling him a liar and an unmanly character, days after he revealed harrowing details of his detention by a special investigation unit on the mainland.
The woman who lives on the mainland and gave her surname as Hu was quoted as saying the bookseller was “not like a man” and had “completely ruined the image of Hong Kong’s men” and lied to her about the legality of banned books when persuading her to help distribute them.
Hu, 37, was said to be crying during the interview, conducted in an undisclosed mainland city by Sing Tao Daily, the only Hong Kong media to be given a series of exclusive interviews on the mainland throughout the booksellers’ saga.
At a Thursday press conference, Lam revealed he had a girlfriend on the mainland and suggested he had no choice but to sacrifice the couple’s relationship to tell Hong Kong of his terrifying ordeal. He did not name her, however. At stake, he said, was the freedom of Hong Kong people and the future of the one country, two systems principle.
