High-profile non-establishment activist Jason Chao Teng Hei was tried yesterday by the Court of First Instance (TJB) in absentia for alleged defamation of Wang Jianwei, ex-director of the University of Macau’s Department of Government and Public Administration. Wang continues to be a professor with the department.
Chao, 31, is reported to be in the UK where he is said to be enrolled in a master’s degree course. He is a former president of the grassroots New Macau Association (NMA). He once ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the legislature.
The trial was requested by Wang who claims that in 2015 Macau Concealers, an online Chinese-language online publication, then headed by Chao, accused him of having sexually harassed a number students.
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