A girl lights candles at the site after the “Goddess of Democracy” statue, a memorial for those killed in the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown, was removed from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Friday, December 24, 2021. The university early Friday morning took down the statue that was based on a figure created by art students and brought to the square shortly before the crackdown in which hundreds of people were killed. (Photo by Vincent Yu/AP Photo)
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