China Raids Maoist Websites, Detains Editors Who Supported Jasic Labor Movement
2018-08-28
Authorities in the Chinese capital have raided two leftist websites in the wake of a Maoist-supported labor movement in the southern province of Guangdong, detaining at least eight members of staff, RFA has learned.
Chen Hongtao, editor-in-chief of the Red Reference website confirmed to RFA that their offices in Beijing's Fangshan district had been raided at around the same time that some 50 supporters of the labor movement at Jasic Technology in Guangdong's Shenzhen city were bundled onto buses and held in detention.
"[On Friday] at around 7.00 a.m., more than 20 people, mostly from Guangdong, came to our offices ... armed with a search warrant and a notice of criminal detention made out for [fellow editor] Shang Kai," Chen, who was out of town on a business trip at the time, told RFA.
Read more at: https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/labor-shenzhen-08282018132845.html
That's unexpected though, I heard Mao is indeed, not popular in China, they probably keep up a lot of statues and such for him. You still can't speak ill of him from what I've read.
