Outcry as memorial to Tiananmen Square victims removed from Hong Kong University

Site of the Pillar of Shame at city's oldest university under guard after workmen cut up statue

Hong Kong's oldest university and the territory's authorities have been accused of rewriting history after cutting up and removing a statue mourning those killed in the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests.

The erasure of the memorial from where it had stood for nearly 25 years came as Beijing has intensified its targeting of political dissent in Hong Kong since the Covid pandemic.