Jasmine is now a word non gratae on the mainland after a call by democracy activists in China to emulate Tunisia’s Jasmine revolution.
You won’t be finding this report online on the mainland because of the word Jasmine or any reference to it..
Not much help to the likes of? http://www.jasminechina.com/ a tour company who have the misfortune to have given themselves such a dangerous name? .
On a more serious front a quick google search illustrates the severity of the crackdown on parts of the legal community in China
Channel One Asia Reports
Arrests after “Jasmine Revolution” call in China
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/1111918/1/.html
BEIJING – Several top Chinese rights activists have disappeared into police custody as a web campaign urged angry citizens to mark the Middle East’s “Jasmine Revolution” with protests, campaigners said Sunday.
Up to 15 leading Chinese rights lawyers and activists have disappeared since Saturday amid a nationwide police mobilisation, according to activists, while the government appeared to censor Internet postings calling for the demonstrations.
“We welcome… laid off workers and victims of forced evictions to participate in demonstrations, shout slogans and seek freedom, democracy and political reform to end ‘one party rule’,” one Internet posting said.
The Guardian reports
Chinese lawyer beaten ahead of jasmine revolution protests
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/21/china-lawyer-beaten-protest
Liu Shihui alleges attack by five members of special police in Guangzhou as he set off to attend demonstrationA Chinese human rights lawyer was hooded and beaten by five men as he left his home to go to a protest planned in the southern city of Guangzhou, he has alleged.
Liu Shihui said he believed his attackers were domestic security officers ? special police whose duties include monitoring dissidents ? who had detained him previously.
Human rights campaigners report that scores of activists across China were questioned or detained following an online call for “jasmine revolution” demonstrations in 13 cities on Sunday, including Guangzhou.
“A man came to me and dragged me to the side of the street. Then four other guys jumped out of a van parked by the roadside and rushed over to me. They put a rice bag over my head and started beating me up,” said Liu.
“It lasted for about five minutes ? I was so scared. I thought they were just going to beat me to death.”
Liu, who spoke to the Guardian via a friend’s phone because his mobile service was cut off on Sunday, said the men did not identify themselves. He believed they were domestic security police because of an incident in December, when he was snatched on the night of the Nobel peace prize ceremony. Many dissidents were detained or harassed owing to the authorities’ anger that the jailed dissident Liu Xiaobo was being honoured.