Growing up in Hong Kong, Joey Siu imagined she might become a secondary school teacher, but two years ago, as pro-democracy protesters filled the streets of the Chinese-ruled city, she found herself taking a different path.
Siu joined the rallies as a student activist, but quickly took on a more prominent role in the movement, advocating for international help and speaking regularly to the media.
Then, in June last year, China imposed the National Security Law – broadly worded legislation it said was necessary to deal with secession, terrorism, subversion and “collusion with foreign powers”.
Overnight, social media accounts were closed, pro-democracy groups shut down. The protests, already quietened by the coronavirus pandemic, evaporated.
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12/04/2021 - 19:25 Eutelsat, the European Television Satellite Organization, is under attack for facilitating broadcasts for China s state tv CGTN. Earlier on, CGTN was banned from broadcasting into the UK. The station is accused of broadcasting televised confessions of people China says are criminals. AFP/Archivos 6 min Thirteen people who describe themselves as the “victims of forced confessions broadcast on Chinese television” have written an open letter to Europe s largest satellite operator, Eutelsat, asking it to review company policy of broadcasting Chinese channels CGTN and CCTV-4. Advertising Read more
Honi Soit included articles that no one could mistake for conservative.
There was a “queer, anti-capitalist love letter” to the video game
Stardew Valley and another taking aim at Western museums which, the article opined, are “irrevocably entrenched in imperialism, European supremacy and colonial violence”.
But there was also an investigation of two Sydney University academics who, according to the student newspaper, had not fully disclosed connections to Chinese talent recruitment programs.
Editors of Sydney University’s student newspaper, the Honi Soit, pulled an article some students claimed reeked “of McCarthyism 2.0”.
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The reaction from other students was swift. They accused the piece of implicitly suggesting the academics were risking national security and “reeking of McCarthyism 2.0” amid rising fears of Sinophobia. Hours later,