Tiananmen statue creator asks Hong Kong for security law immunity... to bring it home
The Danish sculptor of the statue which commemorates protesters killed during China's Tiananmen Square crackdown has asked Hong Kong authorities for immunity from a national security law, so he can come and take it back to Denmark.
Jens Galschiot loaned the eight-metre high, two-tonne copper sculpture called the "Pillar of Shame" to a local civil society group - but fears he will be prosecuted under a sweeping national security law imposed by Beijing in 2020.
Democratic activists and some Western govts have described the law as a tool to silence dissent and push Hong Kong firmly on an authoritarian path.
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