BBCNEWS Newsday December 23, 2021 01:07:00
Created by danish sculptor, jens galschiot, was ordered back in october. construction workers are said to have laboured overnight to dismantle the piece, known as the pillar of shame. the artwork, which depicts piled up corpses and anguished faces, was one of hong kong's few remaining public memorials to tiananmen square. the bbc�*s danny vincent is in hong kong and gave us this update. in october, the university contacted the sculptor to declare that essentially this statue, following legal advice, needed to be removed. after that, they set a deadline for the removal. the deadline passed an...