Imagine how it feels to win Olympic gold against opponents from the authoritarian country that wants to take your sovereignty - and when you receive your medal, your country's name, flag, and anthem are completely erased.
How much longer will this indignity be forced on Taiwan?
Heartbreaking & shameful
But removing #PillarofShame from @HKUniversity does not remove truth about #TiananmenSquareMassacre
We will ensure the truth - and those who died/were jailed in 1989 - are always remembered, & Pillar of Shame finds new homes
https://t.co/w9GKi7YGUZ
🚨New pictures showing the #PillarofShame veiled from view at #HKU
Not content with banning Tiananmen vigils. Not content with tearing down monuments. They can’t even bear to let you look.
Let’s honour the memory of those they would like you to forget ➡️ June 4th 2022. 🕯
The Pillar of Shame is getting demolished right now in Hongkong. The sculpture has been covered and is heavyly guarded so that no students can document what is going on. This is happening in the middle of the night in Hongkong. Im shoked. #Thepillarofshame😢
Civil Human Rights Front, an umbrella group behind some of the largest mass protests in Hong Kong’s history, announced on Sunday that it had disbanded amid a looming police crackdown:
via @jeffielam https://t.co/ZQ3GVQth1S
Authorities are escalating political cleansing. In a single week, PTU, Hong Kong’s largest teachers’ union, and CHRF, the group behind the largest peaceful protests in the city’s history, have both disbanded...
Closing space for civil society is a proven and cunning tactic by the regime to ensure no one can hold the government accountable.
Civil Human Rights Front organized the 1 million and 2 million people marches in 2019.
Today it confirms it will disband. https://t.co/IFGy2MFRKY