A former assistant professor at the School of Visual Arts of Baptist University (HKBU) and political cartoonist has emigrated to the UK after he was reported to the police for an academic article on the anti-extradition movement in September 2021.
Justin Wong, who had focused primarily on satirizing the current social situation in Hong Kong, was reported by HKBU’s higher-ups over his article. The article contained images of the sensitive slogan “Liberate Hong Kong, Revolution of Our Time.” He then decided to give up his faculty post and leave Hong Kong for good in the same year.
On Jan. 1, 2023, Wong was interviewed by Simon Shen, a former Hong Kong political scientist and columnist, now an associate professor at National Sun Yat-sen University in Taiwan. Wong said that he found the incident incredulous and believed he was not the only scholar who had experienced it. He said that the police had contacted HKBU about the case. He also learned from his former colleagues that the police had indeed made inquiries to HKBU, but after he left Hong Kong, the police stopped further investigations….