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Ryan Thoreson says he wasnt given a reason for the decision, which comes amid a crackdown on free speech.

On Saturday, construction workers arrived without warning and began erecting metal sheeting to obscure the message from view.

Over the past week, it has been hard to make sense of the threats and ultimatums the Hong Kong protesters have faced. On Sunday, the South China Morning Post splashed on its front page that Hong Kong had “hours to avoid tragedy.” University deans sent out urgent appeals imploring the students to leave straight away, for their safety.

The Education University is the latest school to do so, amid a widening crackdown on dissent.

The move comes amid an exodus of liberal academics and a Beijing-backed crackdown on dissent.

Academics in Hong Kong find ways, more subtle than in the past, to make their points. But many fear the new national security law.

“But the “Baodiao” movement (保釣運動)—short-hand for “Protect Diaoyutai” (釣魚臺) in Chinese—represents the first movement led by a generation of people in the city imbued with some inchoate sense of local consciousness (to which today's “Hongkonger” identity can be traced back), born and raised in Hong Kong upon the wave of mass migration from mainland China in the 1950s.”

Facing lower tolerance for free speech, academics and students share their approaches on retaining autonomy and avoiding unwanted scrutiny

Facing lower tolerance for free speech, academics and students share their approaches on retaining autonomy and avoiding unwanted scrutiny

All 90 members of the seventeenth legislative council of China Hong Kong Special Administrative Area (HKSAR) took the oath of allegiance on Monday officiated