Screening CE candidates would be like Iran, says sculptor Jens Galschiot

Jens Galschiot examines HKU’s Pillar of Shame, which he created to commemorate 1989’s Tiananmen Square crackdown. Photo: Felix Wong

Universal suffrage with a screening mechanism would be a completely unacceptable, "dark, Middle Ages" arrangement that would resemble Iran's electoral system, says a Danish sculptor and human rights activist who has been barred from entering Hong Kong twice before.

Jens Galschiot, the sculptor who created the University of Hong Kong's Pillar of Shame, was allowed into the city on Thursday for the first time since 2005.

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