Sunday, February 20, 2011

Beijing protest in China between the web and jasmine evidence of revolt "Tunisia"

BEIJING - The riots in North Africa and Middle East inspire young people to prepare themselves against the Chinese regime in Beijing. Tunisian and protests, the Chinese rebels borrow the symbols, in this case, the jasmine. The tension came to Wangfujing, the shopping street in Beijing not far from Tiananmen Square, with a crowd of protesting with the launch of jasmine.

An act that follows a message appeared on Chinese websites, which called on to stage a symbolic protest with the flower symbol of the revolt of Tunisia. In Beijing, the flowers of Tunis. The protest began with the gathering of a small crowd initially composed mainly by curious journalists and police in civilian clothes.

But among the crowd this was obviously an organized group of protesters who have taken advantage of the best time to launch a few bunches of white jasmine from the staircase of a shopping center, under the cameras and flash media. Behavior that triggers a massive deployment of police forces.

The reaction was composed of agents, immediate and decisive: the cops were already on site were joined by dozens of colleagues, which drove the crowd into the street trying to disperse them, while other agents were disappearing quickly throwing them in the flowers' garbage. The response of the police was also the media: for about ten minutes the area of telecommunications have been completely obscured, making it unusable cell phones.

Within minutes the tension is rising again, and on two occasions he touched the physical confrontation. Some police have suddenly faced a foreign cameraman, while others have dismissed a Chinese boy who had picked up the jasmine from garbage cans. Blocked by two men in civilian clothes, the young man was released soon after.

The protesters would be arrested only two - a man who swore at the police and another shouting "I'm hungry." The police came to the event already prepared, having unleashed an extensive preventive action on both the field and on the internet. The word "jasmine" is blocked in China's microblogging platforms, as well as references to the protests in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Bahrain.

Organized on the Web. The message urged the "protest of jasmine" had appeared for the first time on the U.S. site in Chinese Boxun. com, and was subsequently posted on the websites of the Celestial Empire, causing between yesterday and today, more than a hundred arrests of dissidents and activists.

It 's the case of the lawyer of human rights Tianrong Jiang, led away from his home in Beijing by the police, and some of his colleagues as Teng Biao, Xu Zhiyong and Jiang Tianyong, which are unattainable. But none of the best-known dissidents has explicitly signed the appeal to the protests calling on "all the dismissed workers and victims of forced evictions" a show in Shanghai, Guangzhou and 10 other cities shouting slogans like "We want to work," "Long life to democracy "and" We want freedom.

" At the moment it seems that the initiative has attracted only a few protesters in other cities in the capital and the outcome seems pretty small compared to the expectations of the anonymous poster who spread. Inflation risk and North Africa. But Beijing fears the wave of demonstrations that are burning in the Middle East, and appears determined to avoid infection at all costs: Yesterday, President Hu Jintao has called the Central School of the Chinese Communist Party all provincial and ministerial leaders for a speech overtime in which he urged government officials to "maintain social stability and increase control." But also to "study the changes in national and international situation and the mechanisms for resolving social conflicts." Despite the brilliant economic performance in recent years, Beijing is now faced with runaway inflation, which is leading to continuous price rises for food, petrol and diesel.

Anti Obama among those present. Among the foreigners present for the protest was also Jon Huntsman Jr., the outgoing U.S. ambassador to give that many observers as the next challenger to Barack Obama in the presidential elections of 2012. Although in recent weeks taken positions highly critical of the human rights situation in China, Huntsman, who has an adopted daughter from China, has not issued any statement.

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