{"id":76366,"date":"2026-02-14T02:58:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T17:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/13\/university-expels-student-who-called-for-accountability-over-hong-kong-fire-miles-kwan"},"modified":"2026-02-14T02:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T17:58:12","slug":"university-expels-student-who-called-for-accountability-over-hong-kong-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76366","title":{"rendered":"University expels student who called for accountability over Hong Kong fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Discipline committee decides to terminate Miles Kwan from studies because of \u2018multiple acts of misconduct\u2019<\/p>\n<p>A Hong Kong university student who had called for accountability over a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2025\/nov\/27\/how-hong-kong-fire-unfolded-apartment-block-blaze-wang-court\">deadly fire at an apartment complex in the city<\/a> has been expelled by the school for disciplinary offences.<\/p>\n<p>Miles Kwan, a politics student, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2025\/nov\/30\/anger-mounts-in-hong-kong-over-apartment-fires-as-beijing-warns-against-anti-china-disruptors\">detained for two nights<\/a> by the city\u2019s national security police last year for \u201cseditious intent\u201d after handing out flyers calling for an independent investigation into a fire that killed 168 people in November.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/13\/university-expels-student-who-called-for-accountability-over-hong-kong-fire-miles-kwan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discipline committee decides to terminate Miles Kwan from studies because of \u2018multiple acts of misconduct\u2019A Hong Kong university student who had called for accountability over a deadly fire at an apartment complex in the city has been expelled by the s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5178,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5178"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76367,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76366\/revisions\/76367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}