Hong Kong memorial to Tiananmen victims may be imminently removed

Hong Kong University ordered the removal of the statue Pillar of Shame from its campus in October

Hong Kong’s oldest university erected security barriers around a statue mourning those killed in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in 1989 and posted guards at the site late on Wednesday, in a move that prompted fears of the artwork’s imminent removal.

The 8-metre-high Pillar of Shame by Danish sculptor Jens Galschiøt has sat on the University of Hong Kong (HKU) campus since 1997, the year the city was handed back to China.

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