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CNN — A model of the "Pillar of Shame," a memorial to victims of the Tiananmen Square massacre that was controversially removed from a Hong Kong university in 2021, has gone on display in front of the European Parliament in Brussels. Depicting a heap of contorted bodies and screaming faces, the statue was unveiled Tuesday as part of an exhibition of "forbidden art" that organizers said had been censored or "deemed subversive" by Hong Kong and mainland China. The exhibition was hosted by Jens Galschià¸t, the Danish artist behind the famous sculpture, and Kira Marie Peter-Hansen, a member of the…
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