HONG KONG: Dissident Chinese artists, including Ai Weiwei, have decried a Hong Kong university's removal of a statue honouring protesters killed at Tiananmen Square, telling AFP that artistic freedoms are evaporating as Beijing tightens control.commemorating democracy protesters killed by Chinese troops around Tiananmen Square in 1989.
" is about the truth and every moment of the Chinese Communist Party regime is about covering up and taking control of the truth," Ai told AFP. The site where the Pillar Of Shame statue used to stand, is empty after the pillar was removed at the University of Hong Kong, Dec 23, 2021. Now living in Australia, he praised the Pillar Of Shame sculpture as"absolutely a masterpiece" that served as a source of personal inspiration for him during multiple visits to the city.