China pressures Hong Kong in dispute over Tiananmen sculpture

Take a look at the beta version of dw.com. We’re not done yet! Your opinion can help us make it better. Voices critical of the Chinese government are increasingly being silenced in Hong Kong. The city’s university wants to remove Pillar of Shame, a monument to the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing. The sculpture represents the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre Nightmarish, with images of dozens of bodies and faces contorted in pain, Pillar of Shame towers some 8 meters (26 feet) over the campus of the University of Hong Kong. The less-than-subtle monument, like a scene…