A complaint against the Hong Kong government’s refusal to provide information relating to books purged from the city’s public libraries was unsubstantiated, the Ombudsman has ruled, however it did identify what it called “inadequacies” after investigation. The Office of the Ombudsman launched a full investigation into the Leisure and Cultural Services Department (LCSD), which faced a complaint over its refusal to disclose details about books that had been removed or withdrawn from public library shelves, the watchdog revealed in its 2023/24 Annual Report published on Wednesday. The complaint w…
