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China arrested a US university student for mocking its president in tweets

Wednesday, January 22, 2020 by Piyush Suthar | Comments

Home News Tech China arrested a US university student for mocking its president in tweets

Censorship in China never ceases to baffle us, and the country has taken yet another surprising step by arresting a University of Minnesota student for posting ‘offensive’ tweets while he was in the US. According to a report by Axios, Luo Daiqing, a 20-year-old freshman in Minnesota, was arrested in July 2019 for allegedly posting cartoons that resembled China’s president, Xi Jinping.  The publication obtained court documents that suggested Luo was detained from his hometown of Wuhan for posting several tweets comparing Jinping with cartoon characters such as Winnie the pooh, and a villain from a show called Biker Mice from Mars. [Read: Shanghai is testing…

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