Student group demands NTU back all free speech

‘RESPONSIBILITY’: The Students’ Association called on the university to retract a statement it had made online that said police were ‘infringing freedom of speech’

Taipei Times
Date: Jan 05, 2020
By: Wu Po-hsuan  /  Staff reporter

The National Taiwan University (NTU) Students’ Association yesterday called on the university

National Taiwan University president Kuan Chung-ming, center, presides over an administrative meeting at the university in Taipei yesterday.
Photo: Fang Pin-chao, Taipei Times

administration to back freedom of speech in all cases, instead of only supporting Su Hung-dah (蘇宏達), an NTU professor of political science who has been accused of spreading misinformation.

In a video postsed to Facebook in November 2018, Su accused the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) of trying to launch a “cultural revolution” to exterminate the National Palace Museum.

In the video, Su said that former National Palace Museum director Chen Chi-nan (陳其南) collaborated with the DPP on a policy to move the museum’s collection.

The museum has said that Su’s remarks were false.    [FULL  STORY]

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