Hong Kong leader returns Cambridge fellowship over rights row | Malay Mail

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HONG KONG, Aug 16 — Hong Kong’s leader says 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 crackdown on pro-democracy opponents. Chief Executive Carrie Lam said she was...

Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam said the college was ‘smearing a person on the basis of hearsay instead of facts’. — AFP file pic

Lam said she was “deeply disappointed by the college smearing a person on the basis of hearsay instead of facts”. Its governing body had been due to consider Lam’s fellowship next month but would no longer do so now that Lam had returned the honour. Others have been disqualified from standing in local elections while libraries and schools have begun pulling any books deemed to breach the law.

 

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