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 6.4-metre-tall replica of the Goddess of Democracy bronze statue, holding aloft a flame at Hong Kong’s Chinese University was removed from a public piazza just before dawn. The university said in a statement that the “unauthorized statue” had been taken away.
The sculpture was modelled on a 10-metre white plaster and foam statue erected by students in Tiananmen Square in 1989 as a symbol of their resolve in pursuing liberty and
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