University students in Hong Kong ignore warning to remove pro-independence messages from campus ‘democracy wall’
University told student union to remove stickers by 6pm on Friday but instead its defiant leader stamped messages with official mark
Defiant student leaders ignored an ultimatum from university managers to remove messages in support of Hong Kong independence from a campus bulletin board by Friday evening – and warned of not backing down over the issue.
Polytechnic University told the student union at a meeting earlier in the day to remove the memo stickers from the “democracy wall” bulletin board by 6pm. The university warned it would take over half of the wall run by the union if they remained.
Some 90 minutes after the deadline had passed the stickers were still in place – and by then PolyU student union president Lam Wing-hang had stamped them with the union’s official mark.
He said that meant all the stickers had been authorised under the student union’s rules. So the school had no excuse to remove them.
“We have fulfilled [the requirements in] the warnings from the school. If the school still needs to remove or destroy our wall [by taking down the stickers], we had no wrongdoing,” Lam said.
