China arrests returned Tiananmen student leader: family

[Coventina]

Source: Washington Post

BEIJING (Reuters) - A former student leader of China's 1989 pro-democracy movement has been arrested on fraud charges, his family said on Wednesday, weeks before the 20th anniversary of the June 4 crackdown on Tiananmen Square protests.

The arrest of Zhou Yongjun, a leader of the Beijing Students' Autonomous Union in the 1989 protests, comes after months in secret detention following his return from the United States.

Zhou is a permanent U.S. resident, relatives said, and his case could stoke contention between Washington and Beijing.

He was charged with fraud by police in his home city of Suining in southwest Sichuan province, said his brother, Zhou Lin, who spoke by telephone. Zhou Lin said his family received the written arrest notice on Wednesday morning.



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[Javaman]

1. Rounding up the usual suspects so as not to upset the capitalistic apple cart.

More bullshit by the chinese government to keep the smiling face on their corporate slavery-like ways.

[AlphaCentauri]

2. Exiled Tiananmen-era dissident detained in China

Source: AP

An exiled leader in the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests has been secretly detained in south China for more than six months after trying to return to his homeland for the first time since 2002, his family said Wednesday.

Nearly two decades since China's pro-democracy campaign blossomed briefly in the spring of 1989, the movement and its suppression are still taboo and restrictions on those who took part remain harsh.

In April 1989, Zhou Yongjun captured global attention by kneeling on the steps of the Great Hall of the People by Tiananmen Square in a plea for China's communist leaders to acknowledge the students' extraordinary call for political freedom and an end to government corruption. He was a 21-year-old undergraduate at the time.

Zhou, a permanent U.S. resident, was detained in October trying to cross into mainland China from Hong Kong to visit his elderly parents, his sister said in a telephone interview Wednesday.



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[Jkid]

3. Chinese "communists" will never allow true democracy.

Because they know if it happens, their dynasty will fall. If they were willing to kill their own citizens to maintain power in past, they will do it again.