ExCo Convenor, WK Lam, says people should not speculate about what has happened to Lee Bo. Photo: RTHK
The Convenor of the Executive Council, WK Lam, has sidestepped questions on when he believes Hong Kong police will be able to meet one of the five missing booksellers, Lee Bo.
Prominent pro-democracy figures have been urging the Chief Executive, CY Leung, to press Beijing for more details about his disappearance. Lee was the only bookseller to go missing in Hong Kong.
Guangdong officials only told Hong Kong police that Lee was on the mainland on Monday night, more than two weeks after he went missing in Chai Wan.
Lam said the public should not speculate about what had happened. He said he hoped mainland authorities would accept a Hong Kong police request to have access to Lee, and the four other missing Hong Kong men linked to a Causeway Bay bookstore, which sold material critical of Beijing.
One of them, Gui Minhai, appeared on state TV on Sunday night saying he had freely returned to the mainland from Thailand to deal with a fatal traffic accident he'd been involved in over a decade ago.
The other three disappeared whilst on the mainland.
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