The 2010–2011 Tunisian revolution is an intensive campaign of civil resistance, including a series of street demonstrations taking place in Tunisia. The events began in December 2010 and led to the ouster of longtime President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in January 2011. Street demonstrations and other unrest have continued to the present day.Prompted authorities rounded up dozens of dissidents and down on calls for a "revolution Jasmine", the events in more than a dozen Chinese cities Sunday apparently modeled after a wave of pro-democracy demonstrations sweeping the Middle East broken.
The government is authoritarian, always on the alert to suppress dissent, seemed seriously under the threat of demonstrations and proposes to stop the spread of the message that appeared on a U.S. website in Chinese Boxun.com.
were more than 100 activists in cities across China taken away by police at their homes or were missing, said in Hong Kong, Group Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy. Family and friends reported the imprisonment or harassment of dissidents, activists, and some said they were warned not to participate until Sunday.
The police left Beijing Jiang Tianyong lawyer in a car and drove away, said his wife, Jin Ling Bian. She told The Associated Press by telephone Saturday evening that they are waiting for more information.
On Sunday, search for "Jasmine" were stuck on the main Twitter-like micro blog of China, and updated with the word on the popular social networking site Renren.com Chinese have failed with an error message and a warning with reservations "policy satisfied the sensitive content ... or other undesirables. "
Mass Text Messaging service is not available in Beijing due to "technical problems", a leading provider of customer operator China Mobile. In the past, the Chinese authorities to prevent the text messages in politically tense Organization suspended.
The Beijing Wangfujing pedestrian street bustling, where demonstrators called before a McDonald's have been rallying, there was a heavier police presence than normal in the middle of the crowd of buyers. Parallel to the uniformed police and "volunteer public safety" with red armbands, plainclothes police followed the crowd with video cameras and more. A police surveillance van parked across the street.
Boxun.com said its Web site attacked by pirates Saturday was reserved after the call for expressions. A temporary site where users reported heavy police presence in several cities, and ran Sunday.
China's authoritarian government has apparently upset by recent events in Egypt, Tunisia, Bahrain, Yemen, Algeria and Libya. He has limited media reports said the instability caused by protests in Egypt, and is limited to searching the Internet for the uninformed.
The call for a revolution Jasmin came as President Hu Jintao delivered a speech to top leaders Saturday, she asked to "solve the major problems that could damage the harmony and stability of society." Hu told the senior politicians and officials to better social services and better management of Internet information for opinion leaders, "reported the official Xinhua news agency.
The ruling Communist Party is followed by the threat of social unrest because of food and housing prices and other issues.
In the recent price increase was the National Development and Reform Commission on Saturday that oil prices be raised and diesel by 350 yuan ($ 53) per tonne.
Tensions were already high in recent days after a video in secret under house arrest by one of the lawyers of China's most famous activist, Chen, had been published. Chen and his wife were reportedly beaten, in response, and some reports of Chen supporters detained or beaten by authorities after a meeting with his case be reviewed.
