The content originally appeared on: CNN Depicting a heap of screaming faces and contorted torsos, the 'Pillar of Shame' was not just a reminder of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre - it was, for many, an emblem of free speech in Hong Kong. One of the vanishingly few memorials to the crackdown's victims tolerated on Chinese soil, the statue's presence at University of Hong Kong (HKU) was long considered a bellwether of artistic censorship in thesemi-autonomous city. Its removal last […]
