Cathay crew tells of the sackings and phone searches after Hong Kong protests
One staff member has said that pro-Beijing people ‘post our personal information if they discover that we support the movement on our own social media’
20 August 2019 - 14:52
Hong Kong/Singapore — Pilots and cabin crew at Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific Airways described a “white terror” of political denunciations, sackings and phone searches by Chinese aviation officials amid antigovernment protests gripping the former British colony.
Cathay, founded by an American and an Australian during British rule in 1946, was caught in the middle of the crisis 11 days ago, when China demanded it suspend staff involved in the protest movement...
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