A human rights group is protesting the University of British Columbia’s decision to host a recruitment exam for the Hong Kong government—which includes a test on a controversial law seen as a tool for Beijing to tighten control and suppress freedoms in the city.
On Dec. 7, staff at The Epoch Times’ Chinese edition found that a room at UBC’s Robson Square campus in Vancouver had been rented to the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office for a government recruitment exam, which included a test on the city’s national security law.
In a letter sent to UBC on Dec. 22, the Chinese Canadian Concern Group on the Chinese Communist Party’s Human Rights Violations voiced “serious objections” to the university’s decision, noting that the Hong Kong national security law is a “draconian tool of repression that has devastated human rights” in the city and “threatens global democracy.”…