Goddess of Democracy statue, Tiananmen Square memorial removed from Hong Kong campuses in early hours of Christmas Eve


A day after the University of Hong Kong dismantled a sculpture commemorating victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown in a late-night operation, two more local institutions have followed suit.

The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) on Friday confirmed it had removed a statue known as the Goddess of Democracy, which had stood on campus since 2010, while Lingnan University said it had torn down a wall relief memorialising the crackdown.

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