Even seemingly benign causes draw China crackdown

Published September 18, 2014 7:27am ET



BEIJING (AP) — More than 30 people had gathered at Beijing’s most august Buddhist temple to remember the siblings, children and parents lost exactly six months earlier when a Malaysia Airlines jet disappeared. They found themselves encircled by shouting police blocking them from speaking to reporters or entering the temple as a group.

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