A Swiss PhD student at the University of St Gallen has alleged that he was removed from the doctoral programme and had three years of research quashed after he posted critical sentiments on social media about the Chinese Communist Party regime. Oliver Gerber (a pseudonym used to protect the identity of his girlfriend in Wuhan, China) said that after posting on Twitter for just ten days about Communist China, he was cancelled by his own university after his supervising professor received a “complaint from China about your Twitter”.
The professor informed the PhD student in March of last year that she had received “angry emails from China” which alleged that he was posting “neo-Nazi-like content” on social media, the Swiss daily newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung reported. “Ultimately, it may even turn out that I won’t be able to get a visa to China because of you. This is definitely going too far, and I would have to end our advisory relationship,” she told Gerber, adding that he should “tone down his political expression immediately”.
The professor went on to say that she had “no desire to receive emails like this because of one of my doctoral students.” One of Gerber’s posts (in English) on Twitter read: “#CCP made fighting #COVID-19 plan B. Only to be executed if Plan A – covering it up – fails. Those are the actions of paranoid cowards. They neither deserve my respect nor gratitude #ChinaLiedPeopleDied.” After becoming aware of his posts on social media, his girlfriend in Wuhan urged him to stop, warning of possible retaliation from the Communist regime.
“I’m in Switzerland, not China,” Gerber responded, declaring: “I can say what I want here.”.........To Read More....
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