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https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/2179542/chinese-marxist-student-leader-taken-away-police-125th
Did those students serve prison time? What were the charges?
Good faith I just want to know what happened. Thanks.
Edit:
OK I did some more research and I think I figured it out.
Here’s some good primary sources:
- Xinhua story on Jasic: http://www.xinhuanet.com/local/2018-08/24/c_1123326003.htm
- Jasic Workers Support Group site: https://jiashigrsyt1.github.io/
- Jasic Workers Support Group on Qiu Zhanxuan (Peking U. Marxist Society incident): https://jiashigrsyt1.github.io/qzxxy/
- Statement by Qiu Zhanxuan: https://critiqueandtransformation.wordpress.com/2019/05/02/%E8%A6%81%E5%81%9A%E4%B8%80%E5%90%8D%E7%84%A1%E7%94%A2%E9%9A%8E%E7%B4%9A%E7%9A%84%E6%88%B0%E5%A3%AB%EF%BC%88%E9%82%B1%E5%8D%A0%E8%90%B1%EF%BC%89/
- Peking University Marxist Society forum post on what happened with Qiu Zhanxuan: https://bbs.pku.edu.cn/v2/post-read.php?bid=923&threadid=16907239
Qiu Zhanxuan Summary:
Qiu Zhanxuan was a strongly anti-revisionist Peking University student. She had a history of doxing/threatening University students and staff and called for overthrowing the government, according to her own statements. The last straw seems to be a protest she led which interrupted traffic, where she gave the Principal/Vice Principal a public letter. The Police met with her and offered to not press charges if she promised not to cause the University “further trouble” and she refused, so she was charged with picking quarrels and causing trouble.
Jasic Summary:
The Jasic incident seems to be a bit more legitimate. Some workers at Jasic complained of low pay and unpaid overtime and started attempting to strike and form a union. They were fired for repeated absence, so the former workers protested at Jasic, some were taken to the police station for questioning, then they started protesting at the police station. Xinhua and People’s Daily both implied that some of the worker’s complaints were legitimate and were being actively investigated, but at the same time a few workers/protesters had been involved with a Chinese front for a Western NGO that wanted to blow the incident out of proportion. The current “Jasic Workers Support Group” website calls for overthrowing the CCP and supports the Hong Kong rioters.
I’m still looking into the other Marxist student arrests. But so far, the answer looks like no, China does not arrest Marxists.
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