Thursday (November 19) was a special day. The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) was the scene of a long absence. Graduates, dressed in black graduation uniforms, paraded around campus with a banner that read, “CUHK Thugs, Happy Graduation!” The wording.
The school informed earlier that due to the risk of a new epidemic, this year’s graduation ceremony will not be held at the school, but online instead. However, some students still went to the school on their own initiative and held this unusual graduation ceremony on the campus.
For most of the last year, students from various universities in Hong Kong have been involved in “anti-sentencing” protests. In the face of police repression, the students retreated to their campuses in a campus protest that attracted global attention.
The students failed unsuccessfully. The Chinese Communist Party imposed the National Security Law in Hong Kong in a strong-armed attempt to silence the protests and the protests. In the more than five months since the law went into effect, large-scale student-led protests seem to have disappeared, although there have been some sporadic small-scale protests.
Zhao Lijian, spokesman for the Chinese Communist Party’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said at a regular press conference Thursday in response to a question from the Five Eyes Alliance countries condemning the Communist Party’s suppression of pro-democracy lawmakers in Hong Kong: “Since the implementation of the Hong Kong National Security Law, there has been no more of the so-called ‘beautiful scenery’ in Hong Kong.” By “beautiful scenery” he meant protests and demonstrations.
Zhao also warned the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the United Kingdom, five countries known as the “Five Eyes Alliance,” that “whether they have ‘five eyes’ or ‘ten eyes’ or ‘five eyes’ or ‘ten eyes’ or ‘ten eyes,’ they will not be able to see the beautiful scenery,” he said. ‘, as long as they dare to harm China’s sovereignty, security and development interests, beware of their eyes being poked out!”
The graduates of the Chinese University of Hong Kong have clearly not forgotten their days of struggle against the Hong Kong government. More than 100 people marched through the campus with the most iconic slogans of the pre-National Security Law era, such as “Restore Hong Kong, Revolution of the Ages” and “Fight to the End”. The students sang a chorus of “May Glory Return to Hong Kong” at the original graduation ceremony venue. They also called attention to the 12 Hong Kong protesters who were arrested and detained in Shenzhen by the Chinese Coast Guard for fleeing Hong Kong.
The 12 were arrested by Guangdong police in August this year while fleeing persecution under the National Security Law in Taiwan. In the months that followed, the Shenzhen Yantian Detention Center denied them family visits and forbade them from contacting the lawyers their families had hired on their behalf.
Surprisingly, the families of seven of them recently received letters from them, describing how they are doing well in prison, how their health is good, how the guards are friendly, and how they hope their families won’t miss them or come to visit them.
The company has been working to help the 12 people in Hong Kong. The letters are similar in content, with simplified Chinese characters and expressions of distinctly Chinese customs, according to Hong Kong media outlet “Hong Kong 01. The letters are of a stabilization nature and are bureaucratic in nature, according to Zou Jiacheng. He called on the people of Hong Kong to continue to show a “tough stance” and “maintain the heat of the struggle”.
Panicked by the students’ actions, the university sent security guards to follow the procession, videotaped the event, and kept warning the students that the march might violate epidemic prevention and public security regulations, asking them to disperse. Later, the school issued a statement of “strong condemnation” and claimed to have reported the incident to the police.
The Hong Kong police said that they took the incident seriously and condemned it severely. The Hong Kong media reported that the National Security Bureau under the Police Department has taken over the matter and launched an investigation.
After the National Security Law was implemented, the Hong Kong government launched a full-scale purge of dissidents and suppression of dissenting voices. Media mogul Chi-Ying Lai was arrested, Apple Daily’s headquarters was raided, student movement leaders such as Huang Zhifeng and Zhou Ting were all arrested by the police, and four pan-democratic members of the Hong Kong Legislative Council were recently disqualified, leading to the resignation of all pro-democracy legislators. On Wednesday, Hong Kong police arrested three former lawmakers from the pro-democracy camp.
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