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Tiananmen victims' memorial removed from Hong Kong university

Workers move a section of 'Pillar of Shame', a statue by Danish artist Jens Galschiot commemorating the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown in Beijing, into a container at the University of Hong Kong
Workers move a section of 'Pillar of Shame', a statue by Danish artist Jens Galschiot commemorating the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown in Beijing, into a container at the University of Hong Kong YAN ZHAO
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Hong Kong’s oldest university has removed a statue mourning those killed in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in 1989, known as The Pilar of Shame, and posted guards at the site where it has stood for more than 20 years.

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