Hong Kong teacher who internet users claim visited prostitutes on Wuhan study tour returns to city

Principal of CUHKFAA Thomas Cheung Secondary School in New Territories says teacher reported online information about delayed return ‘not accurate’

School has informed its board of directors about incident and also set up task force while maintaining close contact with Education Bureau

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A teacher who internet users claim visited prostitutes is from CUHKFAA Thomas Cheung Secondary School. Photo: Wikimedia

Published: 3:01pm, 15 May 2024Updated: 4:27pm, 15 May 2024

A secondary school teacher who internet users claim was arrested for visiting prostitutes on a study tour in mainland China has come back to Hong Kong, a day after failing to return with the trip’s other participants.

According to a notice issued to parents on Monday by CUHKFAA Thomas Cheung Secondary School in the New Territories and obtained by the Post, the teacher who was said to be assisting mainland authorities in their investigation arrived on Sunday morning.

He was the only participant who had not returned from the four-day tour in Wuhan, which ended on May 11.

Internet users in WhatsApp groups and on LIHKG, an online forum in Hong Kong similar to Reddit, over the weekend claimed a secondary school teacher was arrested on the mainland over vice activities.

The notice, signed by school principal Leung Kwok-ho, said the teacher reported that information circulated online was “not accurate”, but stopped short of giving a specific reason for the latter’s delayed return.

The study tour took place in Wuhan from May 8 to 11. Photo: AFP

Vice-principal Lee Shut-fai announced in a separate statement that the school had filed a report to its board of directors and had also set up an investigation task force to follow up on the matter while maintaining close contact with the Education Bureau.