Hong Kong’s oldest university has covered up one of the last public tributes to the deadly 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown. AFPPixHong Kong’s oldest university covered up one of the last public tributes to the deadly 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown today, as Beijing continues to muzzle dissent in the financial hub.
At least two other local universities removed artworks in public areas marking the crackdown that same week. Created by HKU students shortly after the crackdown, it had adorned the campus for more than three decades according to local media. But Beijing has begun remoulding Hong Kong in its own image following huge and often violent democracy protests in 2019.
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