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#University in Hong Kong Cancels #WorldPressPhoto Exhibition with Protest Photos
Source: RTHK; Stand News; AFP #Feb26
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#University in Hong Kong Cancels #WorldPressPhoto Exhibition with Protest Photos
Source: RTHK; Stand News; AFP #Feb26
Read more
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#WhiteTerror #Censorship
#University in Hong Kong Cancels #WorldPressPhoto Exhibition with Protest Photos
The Hong Kong Baptist University (#HKBU) cancelled an exhibition of World Press Photo winners right before its opening, citing "safety and security" fears as the reason.
The exhibition was set to display prize-winning photos of the 2019 Anti-ELAB protests.
The university, however, did not further explain what their safety "fears" were.
World Press Photo is an annual international competition. In the past, its exhibition has difficulties in taking place inside China.
In October 2020, a similar echibition in Macau, was shut down without explanation by authorities.
Source: RTHK; Stand News; AFP #Feb26
https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/component/k2/1577706-20210226.htm
https://bit.ly/2ZQxztV
#Photography
#University in Hong Kong Cancels #WorldPressPhoto Exhibition with Protest Photos
The Hong Kong Baptist University (#HKBU) cancelled an exhibition of World Press Photo winners right before its opening, citing "safety and security" fears as the reason.
The exhibition was set to display prize-winning photos of the 2019 Anti-ELAB protests.
The university, however, did not further explain what their safety "fears" were.
World Press Photo is an annual international competition. In the past, its exhibition has difficulties in taking place inside China.
In October 2020, a similar echibition in Macau, was shut down without explanation by authorities.
Source: RTHK; Stand News; AFP #Feb26
https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/component/k2/1577706-20210226.htm
https://bit.ly/2ZQxztV
#Photography
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