The world’s first museum dedicated to the Tiananmen Square crackdown, to open this month, is facing possible legal threats due to violating property deeds. However, the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements in China said it will go ahead and open the museum on April 20th, six weeks before the 25th anniversary of the June 4 crackdown.
The Alliance bought the 800 sq ft space in Tsim Sha Tsui’s Foo Hoo Centre for more than HK$9.7 million in December, then received a lawyer’s letter from the block’s owners’ committee last month warning them that opening a museum in a commercial centre might violate the deeds of covenant as the space should only be used for offices. The owners’ committee is holding a meeting tomorrow to decide whether to take legal action.
Source: SCMP
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