Six-year-olds in Hong Kong will now be learning about crimes under the national security law at school

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Hong Kong has unveiled controversial guidelines for schools in the Chinese-ruled city that include teaching students as young as six about colluding with foreign forces and subversion as part of a new national security curriculum.

Wong, mother of primary school children, said the law was “clamping down on people’s individual thoughts” and adding national security to the curricula created a climate of fear.

In secondary schools, pupils will learn what constitutes such offences, which can carry sentences of up to life in prison. Schools are encouraged to “organise various game activities, such as puppet theatre, board games ... to establish a good atmosphere and improve students’ understanding of national security”, according to the guidelines.

 

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