{"id":37835,"date":"2021-10-09T10:12:08","date_gmt":"2021-10-09T01:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/09\/hong-kong-university-orders-removal-of-tiananmen-square-massacre-statue"},"modified":"2021-10-09T10:12:08","modified_gmt":"2021-10-09T01:12:08","slug":"hong-kong-university-orders-removal-of-tiananmen-square-massacre-statue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37835","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong University orders removal of Tiananmen Square massacre statue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pillar of Shame to be taken down amid China-imposed crackdown, with its Danish sculptor \u2018shocked\u2019 at plan to \u2018desecrate\u2019 memorial<\/p>\n<p>The University of Hong Kong has ordered the removal of a statue commemorating protesters killed in China\u2019s 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown.<\/p>\n<p>The 8-metre-high (26ft) copper statue was the centrepiece of Hong Kong\u2019s candlelit vigils on 4 June to commemorate those killed when Chinese troops backed by tanks opened fire on unarmed pro-democracy campaigners in Beijing.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/09\/hong-kong-university-orders-removal-of-tiananmen-square-massacre-statue\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pillar of Shame to be taken down amid China-imposed crackdown, with its Danish sculptor \u2018shocked\u2019 at plan to \u2018desecrate\u2019 memorialThe University of Hong Kong has ordered the removal of a statue commemorating protesters killed in China\u2019s 1989 Tiananmen S&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37836,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37835\/revisions\/37836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}