Hong Kong Unions Urge Cathay Pacific to End ‘White Terror’

Hong Kong Unions Urge Cathay Pacific to End ‘White Terror’
A Cathay Pacific Boeing 777-300ER plane lands at Hong Kong airport after it reopened following clashes between police and protesters, in Hong Kong, China, on Aug. 14, 2019. Thomas Peter/Reuters
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HONG KONG—Cathay Pacific Airways, which is caught in the crosswinds between authorities in Beijing and anti-government protesters in Hong Kong, must put an end to “all forms of white terror,” trade unions in the Chinese-ruled city said on Aug. 23.

The carrier has become the biggest corporate casualty of the protests after China demanded it suspend staff involved in, or who support, the demonstrations that have plunged the former British colony into a political crisis.