Hong Kong teachers allegedly told to avoid US Independence Day events | Hong Kong
Educators, teachers in Hong Kong were warned to keep themselves and students away from the US Independence Day celebration, as they could violate national security laws.
A short message sent to the staff of a Hong Kong School, the Educational Office of the Regional Education Office of the Regional Education Office, “the US Consulate in the US Consulate in the independence day activities and national security laws and Hong Kong laws to avoid violating,” he said.
The Metin was published in Edu Langet, a Facebook page operated by a former manager in Hans Yeung, Hong Kong exams and evaluation authority. The staff urged the “protection” and deterrence of the students who are considering participation to try to “protect”.
Another E -Posta shared in Edu Lancet and seen independently by the Guardian, said the faculty personnel invited from a foreign organization financed by an embassy or an embassy should get permission to participate in the principal to “protect national security”.
The Hong Kong Training Office did not approve or refuse the allegations in response to Guardian’s questions, but in a statement, schools said that “national security has issued policies to effectively prevent and suppress actions and activities that are harmful or harmful.
“Schools have the responsibility to play the role of a good guard and to increase the sensitivity of teachers and students to national security,” he said.
The Bureau put into effect “Open Directives” for schools to create school -based mechanisms and formulate appropriate measures according to their own conditions and to protect national security and national security education ”.
The Bureau did not answer questions about which laws would be broken by participating in the Four July event or whether such warnings were applied only to the US holiday.
For a comment, the US Consulate in Hong Kong was contacted.
Edu Lancet and Yeung, who worked with the education system and run the page to express concerns to çek reveal the existing problems ,, were criticized by the Hong Kong government in the past for their duties. Security secretary Chris Tang accused Yeung of “encouraging” from his home in England.
The undertaken directives are compatible with the pressure on the focus of focus on national security due to the tightening restrictions in Hong Kong’s education system and the increase in the control of the city by the Chinese government. Pro -democracy protests in 2019 after the city, the ruling Chinese Communist Party imposed a national security law, which broadly prohibits Hong Kong against the state against the state.
In 2020, General Manager Carrie Lam accused the education system to fuel protests and determined the tone of an ongoing revision.
The Hong Kong government has changed the school curriculum since then. English languageTo focus on music, math and sports and more patriotic education. It also banned texts that endanger national security, including a picture book about sheep and prosecution writers created by the Union of Physiotherapists of the city.
Teachers in Hong Kong previously told The Guardian that they felt pressure for the Özkahnaför, fear of being reported for explanations seen as patriots. Since the beginning of the 2023-24 academic year, all new teachers in public sector schools, direct subsidies plan schools and kindergartens should take an exam on Hong Kong’s mini constitution, basic law and national security law.
Hong Kong Education Minister Christine Choi many times induced He said that “soft resistance” in schools and this month, educators should be awake against the leakage of hostile forces ”through events such as“ undesirable reading materials ”and non -course activities.
Additional Reports by Jason Tzu Kuan Lu
