It comes a day after a famous statue marking the 1989 massacre was removed from a university.
The tear down of the Goddess of Democracy is the latest in a string of removals of monuments related to the Tiananmen protestsThe Chinese University of Hong Kong tore down a Goddess of Democracy statue, while Lingnan University removed a relief sculpture.The monuments' removal comes as Beijing has increasingly been cracking down on political dissent in Hong Kong.
The statue was modelled after the original statue erected by Chinese students in 1989 and paraded in Tiananmen Square just before the crackdown. Lingnan University said that it had also recently "reviewed and assessed items on campus that may pose legal and safety risks" and "removed [these].... in the best interest of the University".
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