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Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Wednesday, January 07, 2004

Planners of Tian'anmen Square protest arrested

The Public Security Bureau of Beijing said they arrested two people last month, who organized more than 100 others in Tian'anmen Square to protest what they felt to be unjust treatment in local courts.


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Two men who planned a mass protest in Tiananmen Square in December have been held in custody by police, announced Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau Tuesday.

Sun Shuping, 32, from Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, and 46-year-old Wu Daming from southwest China's Sichuan Province were held in custody for illegal gathering and leading over 100 protesters, who came from various localities of the country to complain about different problems, to Tiananmen Square on Dec. 12,2003.

Beijing police said their activities violated China's law and regulations on protest and demonstration. The illegal assembly caused a stir and disrupted the normal orderliness of the politically sensitive public square.

Sun came to Beijing last November to complain about a court rule over her family property and Wu entered the capital to appeal a debt dispute in October 2003.

Sun and Wu got to know each other in Beijing and then applied for permission for the protest on Dec. 9, 2003 but the application was denied.

Police also said two other people, Zhang Shangzhong, from northwest China's Shannxi Province, and Zhao Fengcai, from north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, were also detained for organizing dozens of people to try to rush into and protest in the Diaoyutai State Guest House, where visiting foreign country leaders usually stay and important meetings are held.

A police spokesman said Chinese citizens can deliver their complaints to relevant government departments in a lawful way. Illegal protests will not help to solve the problems and organizers of such protests will be punished according to the law.

By People's Daily Online


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