Hong Kong University has confirmed that a large statue commemorating victims of the Tiananmen Square massacre has been removed from its grounds.
The artwork depicts piled up corpses.
The BBC's Danny Vincent reports from Hong Kong.
[Reporter]
Construction workers worked through the night dismantling the 8 meter statue behind sheets and barriers.
For 24 years, the statue stood on the campus of Hong Kong's oldest university.
This city was once seen as the only place on Chinese soil to publicly commemorate the Tiananmen Square massacre, where hundreds, possibly thousands, were killed when the People's Liberation Army put a bloody end to pro-democracy protests.
Since the introduction of a wide-ranging national security law, activists say the political freedoms Hong Kong was promised are being eroded.
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