Beijing correspondent - The phrase spread like wildfire on the Chinese Internet "weiguan" which translates as "rotating vigilance" is the new slogan-Chinese Internet activists. This is not only to report a violation of laws by the authorities - the transmitting and distributing it immediately or Weibo on Twitter, the micro-blogging service in China.
But also and above all, act: by going to court where a trial takes place, rushing to the scene of an arrest or a forced demolition, Chinese Internet users are organized in the real world. This cooperative mode of protest, now known to the authorities, is effective despite the censorship, which is struggling to lock in real time the new tools of information transmission.
The lawyer Teng Biao, who was brutally arrested when he went to the home of an activist last December - he had just enough time to "twitter" what was going on - reports have suddenly heard people call him by name at the exit of the police: "I could not get out of the car, but I said goodbye through the window.
Later I learned that many users rushed on site. It may well be the reason why we have been released so quickly, "he wrote in a testimonial, which outlines the total disregard of legal procedures by police and death threats uttered against him . Last month, Li Peirong, a young teacher in Nanjing, decided it was not enough to appeal to ever release of Chen: she travels hundreds of miles by car and arrived on the evening of January 10 in the village blind activist.
Thugs harassing her. She retreats into her car and "twitters" his situation. His attackers break his windshield. She was dragged outside, pushed to the ground. But dozens of Internet users take turns to call the police and members of public safety, often on their laptop or their private number.
The police eventually intervened. "This is the first time the police came in the case of Chen. It was a win, it means that I can begin to feel under the rule of law and Chen too," she says . Brice Pedroletti 
But also and above all, act: by going to court where a trial takes place, rushing to the scene of an arrest or a forced demolition, Chinese Internet users are organized in the real world. This cooperative mode of protest, now known to the authorities, is effective despite the censorship, which is struggling to lock in real time the new tools of information transmission.
The lawyer Teng Biao, who was brutally arrested when he went to the home of an activist last December - he had just enough time to "twitter" what was going on - reports have suddenly heard people call him by name at the exit of the police: "I could not get out of the car, but I said goodbye through the window.
Later I learned that many users rushed on site. It may well be the reason why we have been released so quickly, "he wrote in a testimonial, which outlines the total disregard of legal procedures by police and death threats uttered against him . Last month, Li Peirong, a young teacher in Nanjing, decided it was not enough to appeal to ever release of Chen: she travels hundreds of miles by car and arrived on the evening of January 10 in the village blind activist.
Thugs harassing her. She retreats into her car and "twitters" his situation. His attackers break his windshield. She was dragged outside, pushed to the ground. But dozens of Internet users take turns to call the police and members of public safety, often on their laptop or their private number.
The police eventually intervened. "This is the first time the police came in the case of Chen. It was a win, it means that I can begin to feel under the rule of law and Chen too," she says . Brice Pedroletti
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