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From RFA, via AsiaNews.it:
Chinese police confiscated wreaths and floral tributes sent to the family of Lin Mu during the ex-Communist leader’s funeral service that was held yesterday in Sanzhao crematorium in Xian.
Police officials monitored the whole ceremony and took note of the participants, who were mostly democracy campaigners from all over China.
Lin, an ex-Communist leader, was expelled by the party after he supported the 1989 pro-democracy movement. He died in his home in Xian, in Shaanxi province on 15 October, aged 79.
Lin, aide and friend of the ex-secretary of the Communist Party, Hu Yaobang, was expelled three times by government leaders: twice during the Cultural Revolution and again after the crackdown on anti-corruption and pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square that erupted after the death of his mentor. According to some participants at the funeral service, he “paid a high price for his loyalty to Hu’s reforms”.
