Author Murong Xuecun summoned by police over Tiananmen Square event

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/08/murong-xuecun-china-novellist-summoned-beijing-police-tiananmen-event

The author had earlier pledged to turn himself in on his return from Australia.

"On the surface the government appears to be stronger than ever … yet it is actually so fragile that its leaders lose sleep when a few scholars meet and talk in a private home," he wrote in the New York Times in May.

"If the situation in China continues to deteriorate, I cannot stand idly by. If I too am arrested, perhaps more Chinese people will awaken to the realities of their situation. My arrest will be my contribution to resisting government efforts to erase the nation's memory."

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