Police seize second Tiananmen statue

Hong Kong police seized a second statue dedicated to victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown in what critics called an attack on freedom of expression in the semi-autonomous Chinese territory.

The Chinese military's suppression of pro-democracy student protests in June 1989, which killed at least hundreds, is off-limits on the mainland, but it is openly mourned and criticised in Hong Kong, a former British colony that is guaranteed Western-style civil liberties.