BEIJING (Reuters) – A top Chinese university has cracked down on a campus student Marxist society, replacing its leadership after its former head was detained and questioned by police on the sensitive 125th birthday of the founder of modern China, Mao Zedong. China has an awkward relationship with the legacy of Mao, who died in 1976 and is still officially venerated by the ruling Communist Party. In particular, students and recent graduates have teamed up with labor activists to support factory workers fighting for the right to set up their own union. “We don’t recognize this,” he added, according to the accounts of his comments. “This was, plain and simple, a plan to restrict my personal freedom and to use these inhuman and illegal means to stop me from going to commemorate Chairman Mao.”

Source: Egypt Independent December 28, 2018 09:11 UTC