Hong Kong University ordered the removal of the statue Pillar of Shame from its campus in October
Hong Kong’s oldest university erected security barriers around a statue mourning those killed in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in 1989 and posted guards at the site late on Wednesday, in a move that prompted fears of the artwork’s imminent removal.
The 8-metre-high Pillar of Shame by Danish sculptor Jens Galschiøt has sat on the University of Hong Kong (HKU) campus since 1997, the year the city was handed back to China.
