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Statue cleaning Hong Kong’s first Tiananmen crackdown memorial event under national security law | South China Morning Post

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Hong Kong opposition activists washed the Pillar of Shame sculpture located at the University of Hong Kong on May 2, 2021, marking the start of a series of annual events to commemorate victims of the 1989 crackdown at Tiananmen Square in Beijing. It was the first such memorial in the city since China’s central gover…

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