HONG KONG — Academic freedom in Hong Kong has declined sharply in the four years since Beijing imposed a tough national security law on the city, according to a new report by Human Rights Watch and the Hong Kong Council for Democracy.
In an 80-page study released Wednesday, titled “We Can't Write the Truth Anymore: Academic Freedom in Hong Kong Under the National Security Law,” two US-based human rights groups detail how the law has had far-reaching effects. on university campuses. The authors warn that the fundamental freedoms once enjoyed by professors and students – the freedom of expression, publication, assembly, association and acquisition of knowledge – are under severe attack.