GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Heavy Police Presence Thwarts Call for Anti-Government Protests in China

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: Global Security

28February2011 6:58pmEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: China put on a display of force Sunday following an on-line call for anti-government protests across the nation. Several foreign journalists were physically assaulted and detained, including two VOA reporters. Security officials are determined to put down any signs of the kind of unrest that has shaken the Middle East.

Chinese security forces were deployed following the second on-line call in a week urging peaceful protests against Communist Party rule.

Hundreds of uniformed and plain-clothed police officers patrolled expected protest sites in China's two main cities, Beijing and Shanghai.

Police removed five men gathering at a planned protest site in Shanghai.

In Beijing's main shopping and tourist district, close to Tiananmen Square, several foreign journalists were physically assaulted and detained. Many were ordered to destroy film footage and photographs. (read full report)

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