{"id":201851,"date":"2021-12-23T12:25:27","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T12:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/outcry-as-memorial-to-tiananmen-square-victims-removed-from-hong-kong-university"},"modified":"2021-12-23T12:25:27","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T12:25:27","slug":"outcry-as-memorial-to-tiananmen-square-victims-removed-from-hong-kong-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/outcry-as-memorial-to-tiananmen-square-victims-removed-from-hong-kong-university","title":{"rendered":"Outcry as memorial to Tiananmen Square victims removed from Hong Kong University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong&#8217;s oldest university and the territory&#8217;s authorities have been accused of rewriting history after cutting up and removing a statue mourning those killed in the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests.The erasure of the memorial from where it had stood for nearly 25 years came as Beijing has intensified its targeting of political dissent in Hong Kong since the Covid pandemic. The 8-metre-tall (26ft) Pillar of Shame by the Danish sculptor Jens Galschi&#248;t was one of the few remaining public monuments in Hong Kong commemorating the bloody crackdown that is a taboo topic in mainland China, where it cannot be publicly marked. It had sat on the University of Hong Kong (HKU) campus since 1997, the year the city was handed back to China from Britain.According to witnesses, university staff late on Wednesday erected floor-to-ceiling sheets and plastic barriers to shield the statue from view. Loud noises from power tools and chains came from the closed-off area for several hours before<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong&#8217;s oldest university and the territory&#8217;s authorities have been accused of rewriting history after cutting up and removing a statue mourning those killed in the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,101],"tags":[102],"class_list":["post-201851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-world","tag-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}