June 4 vigil in Hong Kong

Statue cleaning Hong Kong’s first Tiananmen crackdown memorial event under national security law

Hong Kong opposition activists washed the Pillar of Shame sculpture located at the University of Hong Kong on May 2, 2021, marking the start of a series of annual events to commemorate victims of the 1989 crackdown at Tiananmen Square in Beijing. It was the first such memorial in the city since China’s central government imposed a national security law on Hong Kong in 2020. Two days before the statue washing ceremony, HKU moved to distance itself from the university’s student union over accusations of increasing politicisation. The move raised questions about the future of the sculpture, which the student union erected in the late 1990s to remember victims of the June 4, 1989, bloody crackdown. 

Source: Reuters/EyePress

More on this: https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3131990/hong-kong-activists-clean-pillar-shame-first-tiananmen 

 

May 3, 2021
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