Chinese students in Australia fear reprisals at home if they speak out, Human Rights Watch says
Researchers found that some students still felt that they lived in a system similar to that under the Chinese Communist Party
By Daniel Hurst / The Guardian
Chinese students in Australia are afraid to speak out on politically sensitive issues because of potential repercussions for relatives back home, Human Rights Watch told an Australian parliamentary inquiry on Thursday last week.
The group said that its ongoing research into academic freedom in Australia had found anxiety and loneliness among Chinese students, with some engaging in self-censorship to avoid a backlash from Beijing.
Australia under significant terror threat Australians have been issued a stark warning after the country s spy agency gained credible intelligence of individuals and groups plotting violence against Australians. Before revealing a nest of foreign spies had been uncovered on Australian soil, Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) Director-General of Security Mike Burgess also spoke about other major threats facing the country. We have credible intelligence that individuals and groups have the capability and intent to conduct terrorism onshore, he said during Wednesday s annual threat assessment. Let me be clear; this threat is significant, and it s not going away. Today, there are individuals and groups subscribing to religiously motivated violent extremism that are plotting violence against Australia, and Australians.
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The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) will stop referring to right-wing extremism and Islamic extremism to talk about violent threats, saying the labels are no longer fit for purpose .
Delivering his second Annual Threat Assessment in Canberra, ASIO Director-General Mike Burgess also revealed violent extremists and foreign spies have posed new online challenges during the coronavirus pandemic.
From Wednesday, ASIO will start referring to ideologically motivated violent extremism and religiously motivated violent extremism - two umbrella categories that better describe the phenomena security agencies are seeing, Mr Burgess said. Words matter. They can be very powerful in how they frame an issue and how they make people think about issues.
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