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        "msgid": "hong-kong-university-expels-student-who-called-for-wang-fuk-court-fire-accountability-1771176530",
        "date": "2026-02-14 07:50:27",
        "title": "Hong Kong university expels student who called for Wang Fuk Court fire accountability",
        "author": "",
        "source": "CNA",
        "tags": "East Asia ,Asia",
        "topic": "Politics",
        "summary": "HONG KONG: A Hong Kong university student who had called for accountability over a deadly fire in the city said on Friday (Feb 13) he was being expelled by the school for disciplinary offences. Miles Kwan, a politics student, was detained for two nights by the city\u2019s national security police last year for \u201cseditious intent\u201d after handing out flyers calling for an independent probe into a fire that killed 168 people in November last year.",
        "content": "<p>HONG KONG: A Hong Kong university student who had called for\naccountability over a deadly fire in the city said on Friday (Feb 13) he\nwas being expelled by the school for disciplinary offences. Miles Kwan,\na politics student, was detained for two nights by the city\u2019s national\nsecurity police last year for \u201cseditious intent\u201d after handing out\nflyers calling for an independent probe into a fire that killed 168\npeople in November last year. After he was released on bail, his school,\nthe Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), conducted a disciplinary\nreview and referred the case to a student discipline committee. The\ncommittee decided to terminate him from studies on Thursday due to\n\u201cmultiple acts of misconduct\u201d, according to a letter from the university\nobtained by AFP. CUHK said in a statement on Friday that it would not\ncomment on individual cases, adding that a student who is given three\ndemerits due to disciplinary actions may be terminated from studies.\nKwan, 24, told AFP that the university did not penalise him for the\narrest in November 2025. According to Kwan, he received demerits for\ncalling the committee a \u201ckangaroo panel\u201d and a \u201cdisgrace\u201d, and for being\ncharged for \u201ccriminal damage\u201d in 2023 after he placed stickers on\nlampposts in 2022 to mark the anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown.\nKwan said he had completed his studies and was set to graduate in March.\n\u201cIt is shameful of CUHK to use graduation certificates to suppress its\nformer students,\u201d he said in a statement. \u201cYou can take away\nqualifications, but you can\u2019t take away dignity.\u201d He was among several\npeople behind a petition issued after the fire that broke out in\nhigh-rise towers of Wang Fuk Court housing estate last November, the\nworld\u2019s deadliest residential building fire since 1980. The petition\ncalled for government officials to be held accountable, an independent\nprobe into possible corruption, proper resettlement for residents, and a\nreview of construction oversight. The Chinese city\u2019s authorities have\nformed a judge-led \u201cindependent committee\u201d to investigate the fatal\nblaze.<\/p>",
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