My beloved Oslo - Pillar of Shame

The statue is made by the Danish artist Jens Galschiøt to remember the loss of life in shameful circumstances. 
The first Pillar of Shame was made to memorialising the Tiananmen Massacre on June 4th 1989 where pro-democracy protest were crushed by Chinese troops.

It will be in Oslo in the University garden for one month and the message is to show the world that people won't forget Hong Kong and what China is doing in Hong Kong, and it's also a tribute to student activism, freedom of expression, democracy and human rights. 

The statue is also a message to the Norwegian government that has been reluctant to criticising Beijing since a years-long freeze in diplomatic relations caused by the Norwegian Nobel Committee's decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize to Chinese human rights lawyer and prisoner Liu Xiaobo in 2010. Liu Xiaobo died in 2017, still silenced and under state custody.