In a jaw-dropping interview, Belgian Prince Laurent, the brother of King Philippe, attempted to defend his colonialist grandfather King Leopold II — who turned the Congo into a slave state — after ...

Hew Locke, the British artist, will ‘interrupt the view’ of the King Leopold II statue with golden symbols of the Congo’s exploitation on poles - Hew Locke/City of Ostend/Rii Schroer for The Telegraph ...

Activists have removed a statue of Belgium's King Leopold II in Brussels - days after another one was taken down in Antwerp due to anti-racism vandalism. The figure was removed from its plinth during ...

Update, June 10, 2020: A 50-year-old statue of King Leopold II was removed from a public square in Antwerp. The same statue had previously been set on fire in protest last week. A spokesperson for the ...

A statue of King Leopold II of Belgium was taken down in Antwerp today after it was vandalised by protesters because of his brutal colonial rule in the Congo. Leopold owned the Belgian Congo as his ...

A statue of former Belgian King Leopold II was removed by officials in the city of Antwerp on Tuesday after Black Lives Matter protesters set it on fire. The statue depicts Leopold, whose reign ran ...

A HISTORIAN has revealed the disturbing horrors of "human zoos" - where human beings were treated like animals by cruel, racist keepers. Guido Gryseels, the former boss of the Africa Museum where King ...

A long-controversial statue of former Belgian King Leopold II has been taken down after it was set on fire last week during global unrest over the police-custody death of George Floyd, according to a ...

As momentum from the Black Lives Matter movement continues to amplify around the world, activists in Belgium hope the winds of change will be enough to finally topple a controversial monarch off his ...

Another statue of King Leopold II, a 19th-century Belgian colonizer king, has been taken down in Ghent as his descendant, the current King Philippe of Belgium, expressed remorse at the role his ...

16:26, Tue, Jun 9, 2020 Updated: 07:05, Thu, Jun 11, 2020 Statues depicting slave traders and influential tyrants have become the target of protesters in the last two weeks, as people continue on ...

Noah, a slight teenager wearing jeans and sneakers, is dwarfed by the bronze statue of Belgium’s King Leopold II astride a horse. The statue, set high on a concrete plinth, has stood opposite the ...