BEIJING: Chinese police have arrested a woman for comments made on Twitter, state media said, with the detainee apparently a student who posted about the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown.

The arrest comes after authorities stepped up censorship and detained dozens of people ahead of last week’s 25th anniversary of the crackdown, in which soldiers killed hundreds, by some estimates more than 1,000, protesters.

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