HONG KONG -- Academic freedom has sharply declined in Hong Kong in the four years since Beijing imposed a draconian national security legislation on the city, a new report from Human Rights Watch and the Hong Kong Democracy Council says.
In the 80-page study released Wednesday and titled "'We Can't Write the Truth Anymore': Academic Freedom in Hong Kong Under the National Security Law," the two U.S.-based nongovernmental human rights groups detail how the law has sweeping effects on university campuses. The basic freedoms faculty and students once enjoyed -- freedom of expression, publication, assembly, association and the pursuit of knowledge -- are all under serious attack, the authors warn.
