Where to start ?
First, academic freedoms
Hong Kong national security law: schools to get new teaching guidelines on legislation as officials review curriculum
- Education Bureau says ‘basic responsibility’ of schools to strengthen students’ sense of national identity
- Curriculum review will focus on China, cultural identity, and the Basic Law
Hong Kong’s schools will get new guidelines on national security education, and authorities are also reviewing the curriculum to increase learning of China’s constitution and the city’s Basic Law, officials said.
The Education Bureau said it was the “basic responsibility” of schools to strengthen students’ sense of national identity, after rare comments on education made by the city’s security minister John Lee Ka-chiu.
In an interview with the Beijing loyalists newspaper Ta Kung Pao, published on Thursday, Lee called for “tighter management” of schools to remove the “bad apples”.
Referring to what he deemed unprofessional teachers who had corrupted young minds, Lee said politics had no place in schools, and admitted it was partly because of the government’s failure to enact a national security law on its own.
Hong Kong’s top prosecutor resigns post amid row with justice minister: source
- In email to colleagues, David Leung says he does not ‘see eye to eye’ with secretary for justice’s running of department, a situation that ‘has not improved’
- Leung has held the top post since 2017 and was known for his prosecution of leaders of the Occupy protests
Hong Kong’s director of public prosecutions, David Leung Cheuk-yin, known for prosecuting leaders of the 2014 Occupy protests, has resigned amid a dispute with the justice minister, the Post has learned.
News of his departure was conveyed in an email he sent to colleagues at the Department of Justice on Friday, according to sources.
“It is most unfortunate that I do not see eye to eye with the [secretary for justice] on the running of [the Prosecution Division], and the situation has not improved with the passage of time,” Leung wrote in his departure message to colleagues, a copy of which was seen by the Post.
“This is not conducive to the smooth operation of PD and certainly not something that I, as a prosecutor serving the division for 25 years and the current head, would like to see.”
21:36 31 Jul: Cable News: 6 HKers Abroad Wanted by HK Police, Suspected Breach of HK NSL re Secession, Collusion w/ Foreign Powers
Cable News sources said 6 political figures abroad or in exile, including Nathan Law, Wayne Chan, Honcques Laus, HKDC – Hong Kong Democracy Council US ‘s Samuel M. Chu (son of Rev. Chu Yiu-ming, one of the 3 founders of the Occupy movement in 2014), Simon Cheng and Ray Wong Toi-yeung, now become wanted persons in the eyes of Hong Kong Police Force.
They are accused of breaching the Hong Kong national security law, such as the offence of secession or collusion with foreign powers.
21:36 31 Jul: Cable News: 6 HKers Abroad Wanted by HK Police, Suspected Breach of HK NSL re Secession, Collusion w/…
Posted by Hong Kong Columns – Translated on Friday, July 31, 2020
