Police seize the 'Pillar of Shame' statue that commemorates Tiananmen Square massacre victims, although it was already removed by the University of Hong Kong in 2021 and kept inside a cargo container on university-owned land.
HONG KONG – Hong Kong police seized an exhibit on Friday, May 5, in connection with what they said was an attempt to incite subversion, with media reporting it was a statue commemorating Beijing’s Tiananmen Square crackdown on democracy protesters in 1989.
“The National Security Department… conducted searches with a warrant this morning. An exhibit related to an ‘incitement to subversion’ case was seized,” police said in a statement. The two-ton copper “Pillar of Shame” was first exhibited at a Tiananmen Square commemoration in Hong Kong in 1997, the same year Britain handed the city back to China.and removed the statue “based on external legal advice and risk assessment for the best interest of the university.” It has since been kept in a cargo container on university-owned land.
“This is outrageous. This is my sculpture and nobody has consulted or informed me about anything,” he said in email response to Reuters.
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