Aaron, an international student studying in Sydney, knows all too well that the industrial-scale surveillance deployed by the Chinese government doesn’t stop at the border.
Aaron, an international student studying in Sydney, knows all too well that the industrial-scale surveillance deployed by the Chinese government on its citizens doesn’t stop at the border.
He suspects that a Chinese police officer was standing over his parents while they gave him the instructions. Over the course of the days-long protest, he sparred with groups of pro-Beijing Chinese nationals, who he says verbally abused him and tore down his posters, and in one incident kicked him in the chest. He filmed some of the confrontations, including one where university staff appeared to try to defuse the situation after his posters were torn down and cautioned him against following the pro-government student through campus.
Amnesty’s report also contained accounts of politically active students being harassed by other Chinese students with pro-government views, bearing a similarity with the abuse Aaron says he encountered during his protest outside Sydney University last year. Sydney University also investigated a complaint Aaron made through its channels and identified one student involved in destroying his posters. The university informed him in a written response to his complaint that it had no jurisdiction to act because the posters were affixed to a bus stop outside the campus grounds. It nonetheless sent a caution letter to the student warning him that such actions, if repeated on campus, could breach the university’s free speech charter.
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