Last month, several thousand Hong Kong university students, some of them under the watch of a CCTV camera, were the first to take compulsory courses on the territory’s national security law.
By Jessie Pang and Sara Cheng HONG KONG (Reuters) - Last month, several thousand Hong Kong university students, some of them under the watch of a CCTV camera, were the first to take compulsory courses on the territory’s national security law. The content of the courses, some of which Reuters has seenexclusively, sets out the dangers of breaking the law, in onecase demonstrating how a message in a chat group could beinterpreted as a serious breach, punishable by up to life inprison. At Hong Kong Baptist University, at least one CCTV camerawas present in the lecture hall, while an unidentifiedphotographer took pictures, according to two students whoattended. Critics said the courses represent an attack on academic freedom in Hong Kong s Western-style university education system. In principle, making requirements on particular classes isa very serious infringement of academic freedom, said KatrinKinzelbach, a political scientist at the University ofErlangen-Nuremberg in Germany, who has
Last month, several thousand Hong Kong university students, some of them under the watch of a CCTV camera, were the first to take compulsory courses on the territory’s national security law.