A Shanghai filmmaker has accused a University of Hong Kong professor of censorship after he was ordered to remove politically sensitive Facebook posts for the school's film festival. He was also barred from holding a memorial for Beijing flood victims at the event.
Director Ying Liang, a guest programmer for the HKU Indie Film Festival last week, said he posted on the event's Facebook page that a guest was not allowed to attend because he had been jailed for taking part in democracy protests on the mainland.
Ying then received an e-mail from Yu Xuying, a PhD graduate who helped organise the festival, asking him to delete the posts.
'The department [of comparative literature] will have to withdraw its support when they know that we have strayed from the neutral stance that we take,' she wrote.
Dr Esther Yau Ching-mei, associate professor of the department, also told Ying that they would not support 'unsolicited personal statements that do not represent the department or HKU'.
Ying's postings were still on the page.