HONG KONG (AFP) - Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said she has returned her honorary fellowship to a Cambridge college after a row over whether the finance hub's academic freedoms are being suppressed as authorities crack down on pro-democracy opponents.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
HONG KONG - Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said she has returned her honorary fellowship to a Cambridge college after a row over whether the finance hub's academic freedoms are being suppressed as authorities crack down on pro-democracy opponents.
"Therefore I can hardly convince myself to maintain any relation with Wolfson College," she wrote on Facebook late Saturday alongside a photo of herself in leafy Cambridge. Mrs Lam, a pro-Beijing appointee, was one of a number of Chinese and Hong Kong officials sanctioned by the United States after Beijing imposed a sweeping security law on the semi-autonomous city in late June.
Three well-known academics also lost their jobs because they had been previously jailed for leading pro-democracy protests.
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