ANCAPS welcome the online statement which urges more "jasmine protests" in China

Beijing - An online statement claiming to be from the organizers of China's so-called 'jasmine movement' on Monday urged more 'strolling' protests and said Sunday's turnout had exceeded expectations despite heavy security.

'We will analyse our situation closely and will issue the exact cities and locations where the Jasmine Revolution's next round of walking will take place in the afternoon of March 6, 2011, at 2 pm,' said the statement by the 'Chinese Jasmine Revolution Organizers' on a new blog.

The statement said the anonymous organizers had received reports of actions in more than 100 cities on Sunday, but it did not name the cities or back the claim with other evidence.

No individuals or groups have claimed responsibility for organizing the recent protests, which began February 20.

The US-based Chinese pro-democracy website Boxun.com last week circulated an open letter and other statements calling for protests.

But the website announced a the weekend that it planned to stop publishing such documents because of hacking attacks that it believed were instigated by the Chinese government.

A link to Monday's statement was circulated on Twitter by Wang Juntao, an exiled leader of China's 1989 democracy movement.

The weekly protests are designed to begin with non-confrontational 'strolls' in designated areas of city centres.

There was no sign of any open protest at the designated site on Sunday in Beijing's Wangfujing shopping street, where hundreds of uniformed and plainclothes police patrolled.

Beijing police briefly detained at least a dozen foreign journalists, including a reporter from German Press Agency dpa, near Wangfujing. At least two reporters were injured by police.

A crowd of up to 2,000 people gathered at the designated protest site near Shanghai's Peace Cinema, where several people were arrested.

Shanghai police used loud whistles and brought in water-spraying trucks to pressure onlookers to leave the site but many people stayed for about one hour, witnesses said.

Boxun posted brief reports on the heavy security around designated protest sites in the cities of Chengdu and Urumqi, but it gave no indication whether anyone had protested at the two venues.

There was no immediate information on the situation in more than 20 other cities where protests were planned.

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ANCAPS welcome the online statement which urges more "jasmine protests" in China

ANCAPS welcome the online statement which urges more "jasmine protests" in China

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