China shuts down social media accounts of LGBT+ student organisations


Source: independent.co.uk independent.co.uk

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China’s government has shut down dozens of social media accounts belonging to LGBT+ student organisations. The accounts on Chinese social media app WeChat were permanently closed on Tuesday amid an crackdown on organisations deemed a “bad influence” by the ruling Communist Party. They included accounts linked to top universities, such as the Sex-Gender Study Community of Renmin University, Peking University ColorsWorld and the Shanghai-based Fudan University Zhihe Society. The account of an off-campus organisation, the Gay and Lesbian Campus Association in China (GLCAC), which cooperates with universities in the Guangzhou area, was also banned. The pages of these accounts on...