Hong Kong universities remove more Tiananmen Square memorials

Students write protest signs following the removal of the Goddess of Democracy statue (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

Universities in Hong Kong are removing memorials to the bloody suppression of the 1989 Chinese pro-democracy movement centred on Beijing’s Tiananmen Square.

The Chinese University of Hong Kong early Friday morning took down the “Goddess of Democracy,” a statue based on a figure created by art students and brought to the square shortly before the crackdown in which hundreds, if not thousands, of people were killed.