With three Hong Kong universities removing memorials to the Tiananmen Square crackdown, artists and activists are working to ensure the “Pillar of Shame” and “Goddess of Democracy” statues ...

The statue, pictured Oct. 2021, was removed after it sat at the University of Hong Kong campus since 1997, the year the city was handed back to China. AFP/Getty Images ...

The University of Hong Kong cited "legal risks" as a reason for removing the "Pillar of Shame" statue. Above, the statue is removed from the University of Hong Kong on December 23, 2021.

Hong Kong's 'Pillar of Shame' statue, which commemorates the victims of the Tiananmen Square massacre, was removed in the middle of the night By Matthew Loh Marc Fernandes/NurPhoto via Getty Images ...

Hong Kong police seized an exhibit on Friday in connection with what they said was an attempt to incite subversion, with media reporting it was a statue commemorating Beijing's Tiananmen Square ...

Workers remove part of the "Pillar of Shame" statue by Danish artist Jens Galschiot, mourning the victims in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, into a container at University of Hong Kong on Dec. 23, 2021.

HONG KONG (Reuters) – A leading Hong Kong university has dismantled and removed a statue from its campus site that for more than two decades has commemorated pro-democracy protesters killed ...

But removing the statue moves HKU and Hong Kong closer to the official state of amnesia about Tiananmen.” HKU was not the only university to seemingly take advantage of the quiet winter holidays.

A leading Hong Kong university has dismantled and removed a statue from its campus site that for more than two decades has commemorated pro-democracy protesters killed during China's Tiananmen ...

A monument at a Hong Kong university that commemorates the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre has been boarded up by workers, prompting fears it may be destroyed as the city’s authorities crack down ...

The “Pillar of Shame” statue, a memorial for those killed in the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown, is removed from the University of Hong Kong, Thursday, Dec. 23, 2021.

A monument at a Hong Kong university that commemorates the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre was removed by workers early Thursday. Workers had erected barricades around the monument late Wednesday.