ABSTRACT
One Human Rights Born News Item item appeared in Hunan Daily and was broadcast by the provincial radio service on July 26, 1984. It concerns a man named Ai Zhuxun, who had been a well-known figure in Hunan’s Hanshou County during Mao Zedong’s later years. He was deputy Party secretary and deputy director of the Hanshou Agricultural Technical School. He apparently was a highly regarded educator, having risen rapidly from being a primary school teacher. Hunan radio described Ai Zhuxun as “a man of the hour during the Cultural Revolution.” Based on the accusation of a student, the county Party committee sent an investigation team in May 1984, and it learned that beginning early in 1983 Ai had had sexual relations with male students “on the pretext of showing concern for them and helping them acquire eligibility for Party membership.” Ai’s case was complicated by the fact of his leftist political views.
