BREAKING: 立場新聞 reporting HKUST's Ching Kwan Lee resigned, after having been accused of directly participating in & supporting the #HongKongProtests, is being pressured to turn herself in #香港 兩名科大學者被指離職 李靜君：已約滿離任 成名： 仲喺科大thestandnews.page.link/jnwdM1DoLXUx4y…
#HKUST has issued a statement saying that it supports #academicfreedom but that all of its employees must strictly abide by #HongKong law; and that disciplinary charges have not been filed against her. #香港
Former #HongKong CE & Vice Chair of the Nat'l Committee of the CPCC CY Leung has demanded that she "surrender herself as soon as possible, lest the police launch an investigation" on the basis of a Sing Tao article alleging her involvement in the #HongKongProtests #香港
The Sing Tao article, published in March, alleges that Ching Kwan Lee stated-- during an academic conference in #Taiwan-- "a lot of things I’ve done are defined as illegal under #HongKong law;" CY Leung is attempting to use the article as evidence #academicfreedom #香港 #台灣
If true, this is an outrageous attack on #academicfreedom and #freespeech in #HongKong & #Taiwan against a world-renowned sociologist, a deeply valued colleague in @AASAsianStudies, drawing on an unsubstantiated statement taken entirely out of context at a conference #台灣 #香港
These allegations have been building for some time: pro-establishment Wen Wei Po accused Ching Kwan Lee of "using the cloak of '#academicfreedom'" to support an agenda of #HongKong independence in March & branded her as "yellow" & "black violent" #香港 wenweipo.com/a/202103/18/AP…
文匯報 points to Ching Kwan Lee's sociological analysis of the #HongKongProtests as a "revolutionary moment" in her academic work in order accuse her of supporting #HongKong independence; and of her fieldwork-- which is based on participant observation-- as political subversion
This is a well-recognised & well-respected methodological approach; and her analysis of the #HongKongProtests using this approach, during which she is alleged to have worn a yellow safety vest marking her off as a non-combatant-- is being cited to call for a police investigation
The 文匯報 refers to her research reports from the field as "so-called 'scholarly analysis'" 所謂的「學術分析」that is actually the work of a " 'black violent scholar' spreading theories of "#HongKong independence gangsterism" 黑暴學者...傳播「港獨黑暴」理論 #香港
The March Sing Tao 星島 article that CY Leung is using to launch a police investigation against Ching Kwan Lee criticises her for saying that "#HongKong is a global city," and that, as such, "HK belongs to the world" #香港 科大教授認曾參與違法示威 std.stheadline.com/daily/article/…
She is also implicitly being accused by 星島 of "colluding with foreign forces" for having reported on her research into the #AntiELAB #HongKongProtests at #HongKong Democracy Council-organised event on the theme of whether #China's Nat'l Security Law for HK would destroy OCTS
When Ching Kwan Lee's presentation of her academic research at the HKDC-organised event were reported in the #HongKong press, she clearly stated that she had not been advocating HK independence, and affirmed that she had been quoted out of context.
Regardless of her actual response, pro-establishment #HongKong Legco member Ben Chan 陳恒鑌, who holds a HKUST Master's Degree in Materials Engineering, insisted that Ching Kwan Lee was "not qualified to teach at HKUST" in March on the basis of her reported remarks
Also pressured into resigning is the eminent HKUST sociologist Ming Sing 成名, a co-founder of the HK Scholars Alliance for #AcademicFreedom. Ming Sing co-edited Take Back Our Future: An Eventful Sociology of the #HongKong Umbrella Movement with Ching Kwan Lee in 2019 #香港
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