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25 Dec, 7 tweets, 8 min read
立場新聞: Last night, #CUHK demolished its Goddess of Democracy statue, claiming that no organization was responsible for its maintenance; #LingnanUniversity also dismantled its Tiananmen Square Massacre relief as a legal or security risk. thestandnews.page.link/VUs7BBJ2JyDKqu…
Chen Weiming, the sculptor of the two works, issued a statement claiming that what the two #HongKong universities destroyed were #freespeech & #academicfreedom; Chen reserves the right to pursue legal proceedings against both #HongKong universities. #香港
thestandnews.page.link/VUs7BBJ2JyDKqu…
#CUHK students erected a paper replica to commemorate the missing statute that was destroyed by fire hoses by the university administration on Christmas Day. #academicfreedom #freespeech #HongKong #香港 民女、浮雕作者陳維明發聲明：清除的是言論和學術自由 thestandnews.page.link/VUs7BBJ2JyDKqu…
"The statue embodied something of the crucial difference between #HongKong & mainland #China. "It symbolized that HK still has room for the #freedomofspeech & it means that HK is still a different part from China," said Alex Lee #香港
worldopress.com/post/statues-o…
HKFP's Tom Grundy: ‘Rights & freedoms are not absolute’ says #HongKong gov’t after 3 unis tear down Tiananmen Massacre monuments
“Various rights & freedoms are guaranteed under the Basic Law. However, these rights & freedoms are not absolute” #香港 hongkongfp.com/2021/12/24/rig…
HKFP's Kelly Ho: ‘Statues tell stories, but so does removing them’: #HongKong’s 48-hour campus sweep. “[T]he Goddess of Democracy had blended into the lives of #CUHK people… it is our collective memory,” said ex-student leader Owen Au #香港 hongkongfp.com/2021/12/25/sta…
DW: How much freedom remains in #HongKong when universities wipe out June 4th? Some see it as a violation of #academicfreedom/#freespeech in HK. Others say it is proof that "one country, two systems" doesn't exist #香港 大学移除六四艺术品 香港自由剩多少? p.dw.com/p/44nKg?maca=z…

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Sixth Plenum Communiqué, 中国共产党第十九届中央委员会第六次全体会议公报 news.cn/politics/2021-…: 7 mentions of Mao (but 5 to MZD Thought), 5 mentions of DXP (but 4 to DXP Theory), only 1 mention of JZM (and 4 mentions of Three Represents), 1 of Hu Jintao (4 of Sci. Dev. Concept)
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