Open University pushes back on Hong Kong police after officers allegedly arrive unannounced on campus to body search student
- By student union’s account, officers responding to insults chased a student into the Ho Man Tin campus and conducted a body search
- President Wong Yuk-shan tells students he ‘would never want any law enforcement officers to enter the campus under normal circumstances’
The president of the Open University on Friday said the school had complained to the police about officers arriving unannounced on campus last week to body search a student.
Wong Yuk-shan revealed the complaint in a three-hour dialogue session with hundreds of students, during which he promised he “would not allow officers to enter the campus” unless an urgent situation called for it.
Earlier in the day, dozens of Open University students staged a sit-in and used chairs to block lifts as they demanded Wong speak with them about the alleged body search on campus on October 3.
According to the university’s student union, officers chased the student into the Ho Man Tin campus and conducted the body search after insults were shouted at police at the nearby Hung Hom Police Station. The student was not arrested.
[I] would never want any law enforcement officers to enter the campus under normal circumstances
At Friday’s session, angry students bombarded Wong with questions about whether he would condemn the police for “illegally trespassing on school campus” and if the university had followed up the matter with appropriate urgency.