Chinese Student Arrested for Critical Essays Online

A 22-year-old Beijing university student has been arrested after posting essays on the Internet criticizing the Communist party's control over society and urging Chinese people to live as "free people," her family and a rights group said. Liu Di, a psychology student at Beijing Normal University, was arrested on campus on Nov. 7, the day before the party began its 16th Party Congress, her grandmother and the New York-based China Labor Watch said.