{"id":38841,"date":"2021-11-12T13:53:35","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T04:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/12\/danish-sculptor-tiananmen-hong-kong-legal-protection-jens-galschiot"},"modified":"2021-11-12T13:53:35","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T04:53:35","slug":"danish-sculptor-seeks-legal-protection-to-pick-up-tiananmen-statue-from-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38841","title":{"rendered":"Danish sculptor seeks legal protection to pick up Tiananmen statue from Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jens Galschiot wants to bring sculpture back after decades in Hong Kong but fears arrest under national security law<\/p>\n<p>The Danish sculptor of a statue that commemorates pro-democracy protesters killed during China\u2019s Tiananmen Square crackdown has asked Hong Kong authorities for immunity from a national security law so he can take it back to Denmark.<\/p>\n<p>Jens Galschiot loaned the eight-metre high, two-tonne copper sculpture called Pillar of Shame to a local civil society group, the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements in China, in perpetuity.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/12\/danish-sculptor-tiananmen-hong-kong-legal-protection-jens-galschiot\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jens Galschiot wants to bring sculpture back after decades in Hong Kong but fears arrest under national security lawThe Danish sculptor of a statue that commemorates pro-democracy protesters killed during China\u2019s Tiananmen Square crackdown has asked Ho&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":492,"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":[41,50,48,431],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-tiananmen-square-protests-1989"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38841","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\/492"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38842,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38841\/revisions\/38842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}