Thursday, May 11, 2023

#HONGKONG: Artist Arrested Over Tiananmen Sculpture

[world politics news]


Hong Kong police have seized a sculpture by a Danish artist commemorating the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen massacre as evidence of "incitement to subvert state power," a charge under the national security law.

Police took the two-ton, eight-meter copper “Pillar of Shame” sculpture in honor of the victims of the June 4, 1989, crackdown by the People's Liberation Army from storage in the northern district of Yuen Long, they said.

[FULL STORY HERE]

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