Breaking: After 610,000 #HKers voted in #Hkprimaries, Benny Tai, co-organizer of the primary and also Umbrella movement in 2014, was just sacked by #Beijing loyalists-dominated #HKU governing council. #Beijing now extends its reach to academic freedoms in #HK.
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🚨New pictures showing the #PillarofShame veiled from view at #HKU Not content with banning Tiananmen vigils. Not content with tearing down monuments. They can’t even bear to let you look. Let’s honour the memory of those they would like you to forget ➡️ June 4th 2022. 🕯
[#CCP members nominated to head #HK's university] 1. According to @StandNewsHK, two #Chinese scholars (at least of them is #CCP member) are nominated as the vice presidents of #HKU, months after the university sacked the co-founder of #UmbrellaMovement #BennyTai.
[New era for #HK academia under uni head w/ #CCP membership] 1. Despite backslash, #HKU council, mostly appointed by pro-#Beijing #Carrielam, approved 2 #Chinese scholars incl one, #MaxShen,who's listed by #Tsinghua 3 times as "party committee member" scmp.com/news/hong-kong…
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One year ago today, a message "Add oil #CUHK" was written on a barricade under #HKU after the event "Siege of CUHK". This was also the weekend when "Siege of #POLYU" started #HongKong #StandWithHongKong
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Wrote #HKU student leader @SunnyCheungky: it could be a crowd fund in support of #HongKongProtests being frozen today, it could be money of multinational corporations tomorrow. “Intl economic interests could be damaged with a flick of #China’s political wrist” #HongKong twitter.com/rthk_enews/sta…
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Breaking: #HKU is removing the “Pillar of Shame” which is built for Tiananmen victims. Artist Jens Galschiot has asked the HKU to allow his team to enter the campus to repair it but failed to received any reply. NOW, HKU finally decides to remove it n erase the history for CCP. twitter.com/StandNewsHK/st…