Taipei, June 19 (CNA) National Taiwan University (NTU) decided Saturday to erect a plaque in commemoration of its late professor and democracy activist Chen Wen-chen , who died under mysterious circumstances four decades ago.

The plaque will be erected in a newly built square on the NTU campus in Taipei, which has been named the Dr. Chen Wen-chen Incident Memorial Square, according to the representatives of the school's faculty, administrative staff and student council who voted 74-64 in favor of the plaque at a school affairs meeting.

Inaugurated in February, the square does not feature any information about Chen's activism or his mysterious death on the school campus in 1981, an omission that will be corrected in part by the plaque, according to president of the NTU student association Zoe Yang (楊子昂).

Bearing the words, "In commemoration of a brave man who firmly defied state violence," the plaque will be erected in the square near NTU's main library, the site where Chen's body was found on July 3, 1981.

NTU history professor Chou Wan-yao  said that at the inaugural ceremony in the Dr. Chen Wen-chen Incident Memorial Square, boards bearing those words were displayed, but they were later removed.

In 1981, Chen had returned on a vacation trip to Taiwan from the United States, where he was employed as a mathematics professor at Carnegie Mellon University. On July 2, he was summoned by the Taiwan Garrison Command, a state security force that has since been disbanded.