(ANSA) - HONG KONG, DECEMBER 24 - Two other works commemorating the repression of Tiananmen Square were removed from as many universities last night in Hong Kong.
After the sensational removal of the sculpture donated to the Hku university in 1997 by the Danish sculptor Jens Galschiot, the statue of the "Goddess of Democracy", a six-meter copy of the allegorical figure erected in the same, was taken away from the campus of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Cuhk). Tiananmen square in Beijing during the pro-democracy protest, before the bloody repression of June 4, 1989, by the Chinese naturalized American artist Chen Weiming, who protested in the media at the news.
The same fate has also befallen the commemorative stele, the work of Chen himself, from Lingnan University.
Tiananmen Square commemorations, strictly prohibited in mainland China, were only allowed in Hong Kong, before being banned in June 2020, officially for health reasons, in times of a Covid pandemic, but also for public security.
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