It is disheartening that we witness police’s brutality towards protestors again. Yesterday, a traffic police officer fired gunshot at close distance towards unarmed protestor at Sai Wan Ho and another traffic police drove motorbike at Kwai Fong towards the crowd. Even worse, police forcibly broke into the campus of Chinese University of Hong Kong, Polytechnic University, City University, firing tear gas and hurting innocent students. We hereby condemn in the strongest terms police’s excessive brutality.

As the Vice-Chancellor of the university, protecting students’ rights would be a basic responsibility. However, Cheng Kwok Hon Leonard has never promised deterring the police entering Lingnan University except with warranty. On 21st July during students’ demonstration outside the Wong’s Administration Building and on 18th September during the Vice-Chancellor Student Forum, Cheng stated that he would protect students’ safety, claiming that “the police and the school has an existing mechanism that bar the police from entering the campus except when the school has called the police and for emergency situation”.

However, the police reneged shortly on the negotiation made with CUHK and forcibly entered the campus today afternoon. Moreover, during the press conference, the police claimed that, police can enter the campus to arrest students without warranty according to the Public Order Ordinance. We urge the school to make clarification to this claim. We demand for a reply from the Vice-Chancellor before 12am midnight on how to deter the police from entering the campus to ensure everyone’s safety inside the campus. Otherwise, Lingnan students will initiate endless class boycott and may escalate our actions.

The 22nd Federation of Student Hostel Association
Lingsulate

12 Nov 2019

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《嶺南學生組織譴責校方貿然復課、罔顧師生安全》 昨日，警方一如以往使用過分暴力對待示威者。一名交通警察於西灣河對一名手無寸鐵的示威者近距離開槍，更有一名交通警察駕駛電單車撞向示威者。更甚者，警方硬闖中文大學、理工大學、城市大學校園，到處發射催淚彈、罔顧學生安危，十宿及嶺事館對此予以最嚴厲譴責。 身為大學校長，理應恪盡所能保護學生。然而鄭國漢一直未有承諾警察須持有法庭所發出的手令方可進入嶺南大學校園範圍。鄭國漢校長曾於7月21日於黃氏行政大樓回應學生訴求，及在9月18日校長學生論壇，聲言，保護學生安全，…

It is disheartening that we witness police’s brutality towards protestors again. Yesterday, a traffic police officer fired gunshot at close distance towards unarmed protestor at Sai Wan Ho and another traffic police drove motorbike at Kwai Fong towards the crowd. Even worse, police forcibly broke into the campus of Chinese University of Hong Kong, Polytechnic University, City University, firing tear gas and hurting innocent students. We hereby condemn in the strongest terms police’s excessive brutality.

As the Vice-Chancellor of the university, protecting students’ rights would be a basic responsibility. However, Cheng Kwok Hon Leonard has never promised deterring the police entering Lingnan University except with warranty. On 21st July during students’ demonstration outside the Wong’s Administration Building and on 18th September during the Vice-Chancellor Student Forum, Cheng stated that he would protect students’ safety, claiming that “the police and the school has an existing mechanism that bar the police from entering the campus except when the school has called the police and for emergency situation”.

However, the police reneged shortly on the negotiation made with CUHK and forcibly entered the campus today afternoon. Moreover, during the press conference, the police claimed that, police can enter the campus to arrest students without warranty according to the Public Order Ordinance. We urge the school to make clarification to this claim. We demand for a reply from the Vice-Chancellor before 12am midnight on how to deter the police from entering the campus to ensure everyone’s safety inside the campus. Otherwise, Lingnan students will initiate endless class boycott and may escalate our actions.

The 22nd Federation of Student Hostel Association
Lingsulate

12 Nov 2019

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