Hong Kong leader cuts ties with college, returns Cambridge fellowship

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The college had recently questioned Carrie Lam’s commitment to the protection of human rights. FMTNews HK

HONG KONG: 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.

“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. Lam, a pro-Beijing appointee, was one of a number of Chinese and Hong Kong officials sanctioned by the US 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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