Workers move a section of the 'Pillar of Shame', a statue by Danish artist Jens Galschiot that commemorates the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown in Beijing, towards a container at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) in Hong Kong on Dec 23. Photo: AFP
Dissident Chinese artists, including Ai Weiwei, have decried a Hong Kong university's removal of a statue honouring protesters killed at Tiananmen Square, saying that artistic freedoms are evaporating as Beijing tightens control.
In the early hours of Thursday, Hong Kong's oldest university dismantled and removed a statue commemorating democracy protesters killed by Chinese troops around Tiananmen Square in 1989.
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