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As Hong Kong’s academic year begins, it’s unclear what can legally be said in a classroom — and whether student activism is a thing of the past
In the heart of the leafy, mountain-top campus of the Chinese University of Hong Kong stands a replica of a giant statue erected by protesting students in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in 1989, before a bloody crackdown by Chinese troops. A monument to freedom, the “Goddess of Democracy” has long been a symbol of Hong Kong’s…