Hong Kong's Security Chief Chris Tang criticised an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) on a seizure by authorities of a statue commemorating Beijing's Tiananmen Square crackdown on democracy protesters in 1989.
Tang said in a letter to the newspaper that the WSJ opinion piece, titled "Subversive Art is a crime in Hong Kong", contained "groundless remarks" that mislead readers, according to a copy posted online by the government on Wednesday.The Journal said in its opinion piece that the seizure by Hong Kong Police's National Security Department of the "Pillar of Shame" statue was quietly executed and done without due process.
"That the opinion piece presented the exhibit of the criminal investigation as an 'artwork' and the case as one concerning mere 'dissent' is totally misleading," Tang said. Beijing imposed the security law on Hong Kong in 2020, a move that Western governments have criticised as a tool to crush dissent.
The Pillar of Shame, created by Danish sculptor Jens Galschiot, is an eight metre tall statue depicting dozens of torn and twisted bodies that commemorates protesters killed in the crackdown in and around Tiananmen Square in 1989.
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