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...Freshman dorms are definitely still full of crackdown mentality,” former Lowell HoCo chair Todd van Stolk-Riley ’06 says...
China watchers have come to call it "the spring of arrests": each year, in the weeks leading up to the June 4 anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen massacre, security forces detain dissidents lest they call attention to Beijing's crackdown on pro-democracy protesters. But this year, spring arrived a little early?and netted some unusual suspects...
...being detained for anti-Chinese activities? According to Lau, the 55-year-old reporter was picked up by Chinese security personnel on April 22 while in Guangzhou to collect a top-secret manuscript by a friend of Zhao Ziyang, the popular ex-Premier purged for opposing the Tiananmen crackdown, who died under house arrest in January. Although the manuscript's exact contents are not clear, a previous memoir by the friend, Zong Fengming, who was able to visit Zhao under house arrest, quoted the former leader as saying that calls for democracy in 1989 came not just from students...
...support efforts by the Uzbekistan government to stabilize their domestic situation and their commitment to the country's peaceful development." KONG QUAN, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman, after China and Uzbekistan signed a $600 million joint oil venture. Uzbekistan is under fire for last month's crackdown on antigovernment protests in which hundreds are believed to have died...
...Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe trying to set an African record for mass arrests? It certainly looks that way. Two weeks ago, police launched a violent crackdown on illegal traders in Zimbabwe's biggest cities - the government blames them for fueling inflation, now at 129%. Operation Restore Order has so far netted more than 15,000 people for hoarding maize and dealing in foreign currency. Many Zimbabweans believe there are darker reasons for the sweeps, which have included incidents of police brutality and destruction of property. Most of those targeted live in urban areas that overwhelmingly backed the opposition Movement...