Hong Kong university covers up Tiananmen memorial slogan

A leading Hong Kong university on Saturday 29 January covered a painted slogan commemorating China’s Tiananmen Square crackdown, the latest instance of a public 4 June memorial being removed in China-ruled Hong Kong, reports Reuters.

A Reuters journalist saw about a dozen construction workers wearing yellow hard hats erect grey metal construction hoardings around a “martyrs slogan” painted across the length of the University of Hong Kong’s (HKU) Swire Bridge. The slogan, painted in Chinese characters on the pavement, read: “The souls of the martyrs shall forever linger despite the cold-blooded massacre. The spark of democracy shall forever glow for the demise of evil.”

Asked why the university, which took down a “Pillar of Shame” Tiananmen statue in December, covered the 20-character slogan, an HKU spokesperson said by email: “The University of Hong Kong regularly conducts maintenance works at various locations and facilities, with the above site being one such project.”
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