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Hong Kong university sacks Tiananmen scholar after visa denied

Hong Kong university sacks Tiananmen scholar after visa denied

HONG KONG: A Hong Kong university has fired a professor who researches China's deadly 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown after the city denied her a visa extension.Rowena He was an associate professor of history at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and authored a 2014 book on Tiananmen exiles, according to the website of the school's history department.Hong Kong used to be the only place on Chinese soil where people could openly mourn those who died on June 4, 1989, when the government sent troops to crush demonstrations in Beijing calling for political change.But commemoration in the former British colony has been driven underground as China tightened its grip, with the city outlawing annual Tiananmen vigils since 2020.He confirmed to AFP that reports saying she was “terminated with immediate effect” were accurate.The scholar took up her position at CUHK in 2019 and was reportedly seeking a visa extension.A CUHK spokesperson said the “employment of non-permanent residents is conditiona

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