Hong Kong university covers up Tiananmen crackdown memorial slogan
Hong Kong, ChinaReuters A leading Hong Kong university on Saturday covered a painted slogan commemorating China’s Tiananmen Square crackdown, the latest instance of a public June 4 memorial being removed in China-ruled Hong Kong. A Reuters journalist saw about a dozen construction workers wearing yellow hard hats erect grey metal construction hoardings around a “martyrs slogan” painted […]
Updated: Hong Kong university dismantles, removes Tiananmen statue from campus
Updated: 8.30am, 24th December (AEDT)Hong Kong, ChinaReuters A leading Hong Kong university has dismantled and removed a statue from its campus site that for more than two decades has commemorated pro-democracy protesters killed during China’s Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989. The artwork, of anguished human torsos, is one of the few remaining public memorials in […]