Former senior civil servant Rachel Cartland has announced she's stepping down as a guest presenter on an RTHK radio program, citing concerns over the new national security law, RTHK reports.
Cartland, a former assistant director of Social Welfare, told RTHK's Backchat program today she was most concerned about the article against subversion, where it was an offense to undermine the Hong Kong government.
"Now that seems to me to be something that we could be potentially accused of quite often, so either we’re not going to have robust discussions because we’re going to be worried about that, or else we may be doing something illegal," she said.
"And then the government came out, and I hoped that they were going to be very reassuring, but instead one of the first things that was done was to advise people not to say a particular slogan, and then the priority task given were to review books in public libraries and to review books in school libraries, which really isn’t that reassuring."
