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Hong Kong protests: students from 10 universities and more than 100 secondary schools expected to join class boycott
- Student representatives in universities warn they will escalate action if government fails to meet extradition bill protesters’ demands
- Scale of next month’s boycott revealed as organisers of the university and secondary school strikes detail their plans separately
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Students from 10 Hong Kong universities and more than 100 secondary schools are expected to join a class boycott next month, with their representatives in tertiary institutions warning they will escalate the action if the government fails to meet protesters’ demands related to the extradition bill by September 13.
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The scale of the action was revealed on Thursday as organisers of the university and secondary school strikes detailed their plans separately.
Hong Kong has been rocked by 11 straight weeks of protests sparked by the now-abandoned bill, which would have allowed the transfer of fugitives to jurisdictions with which Hong Kong does not have an extradition agreement, notably mainland China. Protesters have a set of five demands for the government.
The city’s embattled leader Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor on Tuesday offered to create a platform for dialogue, but again rejected widespread calls for an independent investigation into police conduct and a formal withdrawal of the bill.
Student representatives from the eight publicly funded and two private universities said they would kick off the campaign on September 2 at an assembly at Chinese University, followed by a series of lectures across campuses under the principle of “boycotting classes but not education”.
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