Politics Comic Writer Justin Wong Reveals the Main Reason of Emigration
Former Assistant Lecturer at the Academy of Visual Arts at the Hong Kong Baptist University (
#HKBU), as well as a politic comic writer, Justin Wong Chiu Tat, was namely criticised by the Hong Kong Police that his comic on
#MingPao in Sep 2021 defamed Junior Police Call. He then apologised for the comic and moved to the UK in the end of that year.
He revealed in
#SimonShen interview that his critical point to emigrate was regarding one of his research projects on the protests’ posters, happening after the comic incident. At the time, the seniors in the institution proactively reported it to the National Security Officers, possibly due to the slogans “Liberate Hong Kong, Revolution of Our Times” is shown on the poster.
However, HKBU denied reporting him to the officers and stated that they have been protecting the
#AcademyFreedom, providing a suitable environment for their students and staff for research, education and learning. They added, the institution should be responsible to ensure on-campus events are complying to the law. With regards to this incident, HKBU mentioned, “the institution did not submit the case to the authority to follow-up.
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時任浸大視覺藝術院助理教授、政治漫畫家黃照達,前年九月在《明報》刊登政治漫畫,被警察點名批評中傷少年警訊,他後來就漫畫致歉,年底離開香港移居英國;他接受學者沈旭暉訪問時披露,漫畫風波後,他其中一份學術研究是關於抗爭運動文宣,當中可能有關於「光時」等圖像,浸會大學高層主動向國安警舉報,成為他離開香港的導火線。
但浸會大學回覆查詢時否認報警,指一直維護學術自由,致力為教職員及學生提供合適環境研究、教學及學習 ,校方亦有責任確保校內一切活動合法,就報道中提及的事件,「校方並未向警方報案或交由有關當局處理。」
黃照達在訪問中指,自 47 人案後有離開香港的念頭,他自己畫政治漫畫亦是有風險的工作,少年警訊漫畫風波是轉捩點,令他認真覺得要考慮離開香港,而真正驅使他行動的是校方報警,「覺得即刻要走」。
他形容校方的做法「匪夷所思」,「吓,邊有可能呀,如果係咁其實所有學者,所有學術研究都無可能做得到」,他相信自己不是唯一一個有類似遭遇的學者,當時因為壓力未有公開事件,隔了一段時間認為始終要讓香港人知道事實,「原來紅線係意想不到。」
黃照達又指,自己本來一直想留在香港,「覺得有個責任」,但自己多年來的創作都是和社會議題有關,若留在香港「唔畫政治漫畫得唔得呢,都幾辛苦,幾做唔到自己」,最終被迫離港。
圖片來源:沈旭暉堅離地球片段截圖