Two more Hong Kong universities remove public monuments to the 1989 Tiananmen protests in Beijing
The"Goddess of Democracy" statue as well as a Tiananmen massacre wall relief sculpture have been removed from two university campuses.
A 6.4 metre tall bronze "Goddess of Democracy" statue holding aloft a flame at Hong Kong's Chinese University was removed from a public piazza just before dawn on Friday. Hong Kong's Lingnan University also took down a Tiananmen massacre wall relief sculpture, that also included a depiction of the "Goddess of Democracy".
A towering red picture of the Goddess of Democracy in the Lingnan University student union main hall had also been painted over in grey paint.Hong Kong returned from British to Chinese rule in 1997 and was promised wide ranging autonomy and freedoms by China under a so-called "one country, two systems" arrangement.
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