Posted on 04/23/2009 5:00:10 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Police Swoop on Beijing University
2009-04-22
Comments by a Beijing professor enrage petitioners, who descend on his office and prompt a police crackdown.
Police in Beijing move in on petitioners in the capital in several locations during a sensitive anniversary year.
HONG KONG—Authorities in Beijing have begun moving to clear large numbers of people from the capital who have a grievance against the government as security tightens, with local residents and petitioners reporting detentions in several sensitive locations.
Hundreds of protesters have traveled from all over China to the capital's prestigious Beijing University following recently reported remarks about petitioners by a professor there.
A number of these were rounded up in recent days, and their details recorded by police after they staged a sit-in in protest at recent comments by university professor Sun Dong Dong, who was reported as saying that 99 percent of long-term petitioners—people who try to lodge complaints about alleged official wrongdoing through official channels—were mentally ill.
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Ping!
The future of Amerika. Count on it.
Beijing University
I’ve been there - twice - for Christian Church services.
Swoop?
Did they have on capes and use ropes from building across the street.
Exactly how does one ‘swoop’?
Sun Dong Dong claims critics are “astroturf”.
Pelosi approves.
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