Guardian - 22 January 2018, 14:00 (+ 2297 days 10 hours and 29 minutes) International
Report says freedom has deteriorated so much that independent monitoring groups should be establishedHong Kong’s universities, long a beacon of academic freedom, bastions of freewheeling activism and discussion, are under threat and risk losing their internationally respected status, according to a report.Universities are increasingly limiting freedom of expression, outspoken professors have been removed from their posts and government-appointed administrators run the schools against the will of the students and staff, Kevin Carrico, a professor at Macquarie University in Australia, writes in a report for the NGO Hong Kong Watch. Continue reading...