Workers barricaded the monument at the University of Hong Kong late Wednesday night.
The student-led demonstrations were violently suppressed after the Chinese government declared martial law.HONG KONG -- A monument at a Hong Kong university that commemorates the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre was removed by workers early Thursday over the objections of its creator from Denmark.
The dismantling of the sculpture came days after pro-Beijing candidates scored a landslide victory in the Hong Kong legislative elections, after amendments in election laws allowed the vetting of all candidates to ensure that they are “patriots” loyal to Beijing. “No party has ever obtained any approval from the university to display the statue on campus, and the university has the right to take appropriate actions to handle it at any time,” the university said in a statement Thursday.
In October, the university informed the now-defunct candlelight vigil organizer, the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, that it had to remove the statue following “the latest risk assessment and legal advice.” “We don’t know exactly what happened, but I fear they destroy it,” he said. “This is my sculpture, and it is my property.”He had previously written to the university to assert his ownership of the monument, although his requests had gone largely ignored.
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