1. Riots, sparked off by the arrest of seven student leaders, have spread to other universities. 2. Student leaders had organized a sit-in to protest against the war. 3. Student leaders appeared on television to ask for calm. 4. On the same day the recently formed Civic Alliance of extraparliamentary opposition groupings held its inaugural congress, electing as chair student leader Marian Munteanu. 5. Others sentenced included student leaders Wang Youcai, Zhang Ming, Ma Shaofang, Zheng Xueguagn and Guo Haifeng, and the philosopher Bao Zunxin. 6. Adnan Damiri, a student leader who had recently been released from Qeziot prison, contended that the constant killing of alleged collaborators was undermining the intifada. 7. Shen had returned from exile in the USA in early August, the first prominent student leader to do so. 8. Student leaders say they fear that young people could be brainwashed by the organisation. |
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