PITTSBURGH, Pa.—About three hundred students attended a candlelight rally at Carnegie Mellon University on Dec. 2 to mourn those who lost their lives in the recent Urumqi fire and support ongoing protests in China.
The rally was held in front of The Fence, a symbol of free student voice on Carnegie Mellon’s campus, to express five demands: “Allow public vigils, end brutal lockdowns, release protestors, protect human rights, and stop genocide.” The crowd shouted the demands, along with slogans including “Give me liberty or give me death” and “Free China.”
Twenty-four people, mostly Chinese students, volunteered to speak at the rally, which lasted about one and a half hours….