China: New generation of internet activists targeted

Wednesday 23 March 2011 More than 100 detained or intimidated since February by security forces, following online calls for a Chinese 'Jasmine Revolution'. Online calls for China to stage its own ‘Jasmine Revolution’ following protests in the Middle East and North Africa has prompted the heaviest wave of arrests of Chinese activists for several years, Amnesty International has said. More than 100 activists, many of them active on Twitter and blogging networks, have been detained, subjected to monitoring and intimidation by the security forces, or have gone missing since late February.“The…

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