The “Pillar of Shame,” a monument commemorating the victims of the Tiananmen Square massacre, stood at the University of Hong Kong for more than two decades until it was removed Thursday
HONG KONG—The governing body of the city’s oldest university ordered the removal of a statue commemorating the victims of the Tiananmen Square massacre, felling one of the most prominent monuments to the incident on Chinese soil.
The Council of the University of Hong Kong said in a Thursday statement that it made the decision “based on external legal advice and risk assessment for the best interest of the university.” It said that no party had ever obtained approval from the university to display the statue on campus.
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