Sunday 20 February 2011

China police break up 'protests' after online appeal

Police in Shanghai, China - 20 February 2011 Police dispersed a small crowd in Shanghai who appeared to be mostly curious onlookers

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Police in China showed up in force in several major cities after an online call for a "jasmine revolution".
Calls for people to protest and shout "we want food, we want work, we want housing, we want fairness", were circulated on Chinese microblog sites.
The message was first posted on a US-based Chinese-language website.
Several rights activists were detained beforehand and three people were arrested in Shanghai, but the call for mass protests was not well answered.Read More

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