Statement on the recent detention of academic Feng Chongyi in China

By Jeannie Rea. NTEU welcomed the safe return to Australia on 2 April of University of Technology Sydney Associate Professor Feng Chongyi, after his week-long detention in Guangzhou. 
Professor Feng being denied boarding his plane and undergoing questioning about his academic work provides a timely opportunity to consider the critical function of freedom of speech to a robust civil society. More...