The World : New China Student Protest

In the first known revival of student protests in China since the army crushed a movement for democracy last month, about 300 Beijing University students gathered in a campus courtyard and mockingly sang Communist songs, students reported. The demonstrators said they were upset because work units have rejected some graduating seniors for jobs, citing their pro-democracy sentiments. The small but daring demonstration was held despite thousands of arrests from earlier protests and strict martial-law rules against such gatherings. Local Communist Party officials branded the rally “a serious political transgression,” and campus authorities were interrogating students in an attempt to identify the leaders, Chinese sources reported.