Two more Tiananmen monuments removed from Hong Kong university campuses
Hong Kong, ChinaReuters Two more Hong Kong universities on Friday removed public monuments to the 1989 Tiananmen protests in Beijing, following on the heels of the dismantling of a sculpture marking victims of the crackdown at another university earlier this week. A “Goddess of Democracy” statue holding aloft a flame at Hong Kong’s Chinese University […]
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 […]