A Washington Post report on May 25, disclosed that 21-year Qiu Zhanxuan, leader of the Marxist student association at the elite Peking University, had released a scathing video in February of the inhuman treatment meted out to him by China's security authorities during his four days of detention. He said they pressured him to quit labour activism and drop out of Peking University, where he was on a rare full scholarship. At least 21 members of Peking University’s Marxist society — including its leader Qiu Zhanxuan — are presently under house arrest or have vanished altogether. Perhaps sensing the potential for unrest, the Communist Party in October appointed Qiu Shuiping, a former head of the Beijing branch of the Ministry of State Security to be Peking University’s new top official. The students, however, are not caving in and continue to air what was happening on campuses on Twitter and the hosting service GitHub, which are beyond the reach of Chinese censors.
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