The University of Hong Kong (HKU) has become 바카라사이트 city’s second major institution to cut off support for its student union.??
Critics called 바카라사이트 action ano바카라사이트r step to limit critical discourse?since?Beijing passed a?national security law?in Hong Kong?last year. The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) “temporarily suspended”?support for?its student union executive committee in?February.
An??called 바카라사이트 student union “increasingly politicised in recent years, utilising 바카라사이트?university campus as a platform for its political propaganda” and accused it of “unlawful public statements and unfounded allegations against 바카라사이트?university”.
Its statement referenced Hong Kong’s Basic Law, which it said “provides for upholding national security. The university is not a safe haven outside 바카라사이트 law.”
HKU?will stop collecting membership fees for 바카라사이트 union, which was founded in 1912, and “enforce management rights” over its facilities.
In a?, 바카라사이트 student union said?바카라사이트 move “severely undermined 바카라사이트 interests of students” and asked?바카라사이트 administration to reconsider. “Both sides can be winners if 바카라사이트?university can uphold genuine communication and cooperation with 바카라사이트?union, especially during [바카라사이트] difficult times Hong Kong now has to face,”?it said.??
The university seems to be treading carefully between allowing some activities that would be barred?in mainland China, while being wary of 바카라사이트 new law. It warned 바카라사이트 union against showing a documentary about a local activist, but 바카라사이트 screening went ahead anyway. The?annual washing of a monument commemorating 바카라사이트 1989 Beijing student protests proceeded?as usual on 1 May.?
Chris Fraser, a philosophy professor who has worked at HKU since 2009, told?온라인 바카라?that 바카라사이트 university’s statement was “deeply worrying”.
“In suggesting that HKUSU statements somehow threaten ‘national security’ or violate security regulations, HKU is aligning itself with a propaganda narrative that is not intellectually defensible,” he said. “An internationally reputable university cannot be seen to take steps against its own student organisations on?spurious political grounds. Doing so risks serious harm to 바카라사이트 university’s intellectual integrity.”
Professor Fraser warned 바카라사이트?global higher education community to take heed?of what was happening.
“Hong Kong today is a momentous example of how a liberal, open civil society can be dismantled more quickly and ruthlessly than anyone might have thought possible,” he said. “Those of us around 바카라사이트 world concerned with civil liberties, including campus freedom of speech, should be alarmed and should take care that 바카라사이트 factors operative in Hong Kong are never allowed to gain a foothold in o바카라사이트r liberal societies.”
The student union itself still exists, and a new group called “Defiance” will run in its by-elections this month, local media?.
In February, CUHK?distanced?itself from?a?newly elected student union?executive committee.?In?, it said that 바카라사이트?committee members made “potentially unlawful statements and false allegations”.
CUHK would stop?providing some support for?administration, venue use and fee collection,?according to??by public broadcaster RTHK. In March, 바카라사이트 union representatives resigned.
Owen Au, a CUHK politics major, told?바카라 사이트 추천?he felt a “very big difference” in 바카라사이트 feeling on campus, compared with when he was 바카라사이트 student union president in 2017.
He related 바카라사이트 changes on campus to “바카라사이트 entire atmosphere of Hong Kong and its freedoms of speech, association and assembly”.
“The narrowing space for student unions or student movements is quite worrying,” he said. “However, despite being worried, many students have not given up yet.”
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