BEIJING: Students and alumni of several Chinese universities are sounding the alarm over the apparent detention of more than a dozen young labour activists who have been missing since the weekend.
Three recent graduates of the elite Peking University have been taken away by authorities, the Jasic Workers Support Group said in a statement late Tuesday. According to the group, witnesses saw one person being “kidnapped” from the Beijing campus, while others in Shenzhen, Guangzhou and Shanghai also disappeared.
They were involved in a coalition, led by young Marxist activists, that was founded this summer to show solidarity with factory workers at Jasic Technology, a welding equipment manufacturer in southern China.
The young Marxists, however, are an unusual target because they espouse the same values socialism, workers’ rights and Marxist ideology which the party has advocated.
Published in Dawn, November 15th, 2018
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