Hong Kong security lawTipping point nears for Tiananmen memorial in Hong Kong
Sculptor and university at impasse on moving 'Pillar of Shame' to Denmark
A security guard watched over the "Pillar of Shame" on Oct. 13, the deadline the University of Hong Kong had set for the statue's removal. © AP
PAK YIU, Nikkei staff writer
November 18, 2021 13:51 JST
HONG KONG -- The future of Hong Kong's most prominent standing memorial to the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre is in limbo after a breakdown in talks over its removal between the Danish sculptor who created it and the university which has inadvertently hosted it for 24 years.