The Nottingham Stands with Hong Kong group is asking Nottingham City Council to consider human rights over 'economic concerns'
Campaigners have published an open letter to Nottingham City Council as they continue to demand that its relationship with a city in China comes to an end. Nottingham has had an official relationship with the Chinese city of Ningbo since 2004, when the University of Nottingham opened a 14-acre campus there.
A petition was then handed to Nottingham City Council on June 12 last year, with the authority's leader David Mellen responding to it at a meeting last month. The full council meeting was attended by several members of Nottingham Stands with Hong Kong, who had also been demonstrating outside the Council House before it took place.Councillor Mellen said the council was reviewing the nature of "all its current twinning and international arrangements", including the one with Ningbo.
The letter reads: "We urge the council to consider the moral justification of human rights over economic concerns and terminate its ties with China. And we request the council leader to have an open discussion with us through a public inquiry." "But the partnership should be based on the grounding principle of upholding human rights and democratic values that our city safeguards." A Nottingham City City Council spokesperson confirmed there was no update on the review at this time.
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