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.
But campaigners from the Nottingham Stands with Hong Kong group have been calling for this partnership to end. Protesters took to the Old Market Square last year and described an "ongoing oppression and persecution" of people in Hong Kong.
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.
