China Academic Freedom

Hong Kong's oldest university launched an overnight operation Thursday to dismantle a statue commemorating those killed in Beijing's Tiananmen Square in the latest blow to academic freedoms as China cracks down.

A Chinese province's plans to install CCTV cameras in university classrooms have come under fire from lawyers who say the move will curb academic freedom, state-run media said today.

Hong Kong's oldest university launched an overnight operation Thursday to dismantle a statue commemorating those killed in Beijing's Tiananmen Square in the latest blow to academic freedoms as China cracks down.

A Chinese province's plans to install CCTV cameras in university classrooms have come under fire from lawyers who say the move will curb academic freedom, state-run media said today.