The chairman of a student Marxist society at Peking University was arrested on his way to an event to mark the 125th anniversary of the birth of Mao Zedong. Photo: Simon Song
Chinese Marxist student leader taken away by police on 125th anniversary of Mao Zedong’s birth
- Witness says ‘seven or eight men in plain clothes’ forced Qiu Zhanxuan, head of the Peking University Marxist Society, into a car
- Mao anniversary was not marked in print editions of major Communist newspapers on Wednesday
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Human rights in China
The chairman of a student Marxist society at Peking University was arrested on his way to an event to mark the 125th anniversary of the birth of Mao Zedong. Photo: Simon Song