Complaint filed over removal of pro-Hong Kong messages on campus

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/10/06
By: Shen Peng-da, Yang Sz-ruei and Evelyn Kao

A Lennon Wall set up at National Taiwan University of Arts for people to express their views on Hong Kong's protest movement.

Taipei, Oct. 6 (CNA) A Hong Kong student at National Taiwan University of Arts filed a complaint with police Sunday against two Chinese students who tore down messages posted on campus in support of the ongoing democracy movement in Hong Kong.

Gary Cheung (張俊豪), a Hong Kong student enrolled in the school's Motion Picture Department, said the two Chinese students' actions severely infringed on other people's right to free speech and asked that they offer a public apology.

According to video footage provided by students, the two Chinese students were seen on Oct. 2 at around 4 a.m. tearing down post-it notes on a campus Lennon Wall, set up for people to express their views on Hong Kong's protest movement.

Cheung said Hong Kong students at the school tried to solve the problem through the university by seeking to communicate with the two Chinese students through its international affairs department.
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