November 3, 2000
Hong Kong Drops Charges Against Students for Illegal Protest; Peking U. Sponsors Walt Whitman Meeting; Many Australian Mathematicians Leave Country, Report Says
The Hong Kong police have dropped charges against seven students who participated in an unauthorized protest in June.
Five hundred academics from Hong Kong's universities had petitioned the government not to prosecute the students, who were pushing for the right of family members from mainland China to set up permanent residence in Hong Kong, according to the South China Morning Post.
Even though Hong Kong is part of China, the granting of a legal
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