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National security law: Hong Kong’s PolyU tells student union to take magazine off shelves over ‘inappropriate’ content
- Latest issue of publication touched on now-illegal protest slogan and featured articles on impact of Beijing-imposed security law
- Dust-up over magazine follows numerous other rows between local universities and their student unions
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Hundreds copies of the latest issue of Hong Kong Polytechnic University’s student union magazine have been yanked from campus shelves after administrators took issue with content touching on a now-illegal protest slogan and shrinking freedoms under the national security law.
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The students running the magazine could also face disciplinary action, according to the union.
The body’s press committee said on Tuesday that PolyU management had asked it to not only take away all hard copies of the publication, but to remove the online version as well, a request with which it ultimately complied.
Administrators cited “inappropriate” content, but did not specify which parts were deemed problematic, the committee said.
Union president Alan Wu Wai-kuen told the Post he understood that the university’s student discipline committee was following up on the matter.
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