As my colleague Edward Wong reports, hundreds of protesters gathered outside the headquarters of a newspaper office in southern China on Monday to register their anger at the censorship of a recent editorial.
Video of the demonstration, posted online by international news organizations and Chinese bloggers, showed the protesters carrying white and yellow chrysanthemums, a flower that symbolizes mourning, and banners that read: “Get rid of censorship. The Chinese people want freedom.”
One video clip uploaded to a Chinese social media site and later copied to YouTube showed that the event was documented by a number of photographers, including at least one uniformed police officer.
Hang Tung Chow of Labour Action China, a nongovernmental organization based in Hong Kong, posted copies of several images and video clips of the protest originally uploaded to Chinese social media accounts on her Twitter feed.
青年网民演讲，呼吁政治改革，呼吁宪政，呼吁民众一起站起来 #南周 http://t.co/5HlUP9hI
— Hang Tung Chow (@zouxingtong) 7 Jan 13
好一個避言套~ #南周 http://t.co/FL2eNwci
— Hang Tung Chow (@zouxingtong) 7 Jan 13
有老有少，拿着菊花，舉着標語 #南周 #nfzm http://t.co/DRfId7Wx
— Hang Tung Chow (@zouxingtong) 7 Jan 13
2013年1月7日早间南方周末报社门前视频，墙内的被删了，传到youtube了http://t.co/LsvxweL8
— 疯油精 (@ptoq) 7 Jan 13
Angry journalists at the Southern Weekend newspaper have called for the removal of Tuo Zhen, the top propaganda official in Guangdong, blamed for censoring a New Year’s editorial that was supposed to have called for greater respect for rights enshrined in China’s Constitution. One video clip uploaded to YouTube on Sunday showed a lone man protesting outside the newspaper building holding a sign reading: “Tuo Step Down!”
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