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University of Hong Kong students demand release of security camera footage from night of Lennon Wall attack
- Student union also pans HKU’s security response, calls on its president to condemn the attack
- Middle-aged outsiders reportedly behind Saturday’s destruction of the Lennon Wall supporting anti-government protest movement
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University of Hong Kong (HKU) students have demanded the release of security camera footage from the night a so-called Lennon Wall was vandalised, while calling on its president to condemn the act.
HKU’s student union also accused the university’s security unit of not doing enough to stop Saturday night’s destruction of the site bearing messages in support of the anti-government protest movement.
A group of “outsiders”, most of whom were reportedly middle-aged, entered the university’s centennial campus and ripped off posters backing last year’s unrest and highlighting the case of 12 Hongkongers detained in mainland China after trying to flee to Taiwan.
Around 20 students, some wearing hooded jackets and goggles to prevent identification, responded to the union’s call to rebuild the Lennon Wall on Tuesday afternoon.
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In response to the vandalism, the school made a police statement but told students that officers would not enter the campus to conduct investigation at this stage, according to union president Edy Jeh Tsz-lam.
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