Can anyone confirm that the new campus of the UC Booth School is on schedule to start in 2014, in what was formerly a Special Branch prison under the British rule?
Cannot find many references to the prison online other than on Blacksmith books:
http://www.blacksmithbooks.com/blog/?p=308
and Zonaeuropa (linked from Pete's blog)
http://zonaeuropa.com/20060508_2.htm
Would have personally thought that the defenders of freedom (liberal academics) and all would have rejected a former political prison as its campus.During the period of the 1967 riots, Chinese Reform Association honorary president Choi Wei-hung was detained at the Mount Davis Concentration Camp for a year and a half. Five years ago, he wrote about his experience in Ming Pao and told us about the horror for the political prisoners imprisoned in the white house.
During the period of riots, Choi Wei-hung was the secretary of the Chinese Reform Association. Without being interrogated, charged or judged, a black hood was placed on his head and he was shipped to the white house for detention. The horror of the white house was not about physical torture but the mental abuse.
The camp mates called their single-person cells "tin cans". On the floor, there was one wood board that served as the bed. There was a powerful ventilator in the corner. Overhead, there was a strong light.