pressure group. Independent Chinese analysts said it provided a detailed account of confidential plans by the security authorities. “The main aim of ‘security’ for the Olympics will be the suppression of freedom,” the human rights group said. It challenged the International Olympic Committee to hold the Chinese government to promises it had made to guarantee human rights as part of its bid for the Games.
Yu has previously been identified by the state media as the second-ranking officer in the Beijing Public Security Bureau. The leaked speech shows he is responsible for overseeing what the authorities term “collective incidents”, a coded phrase for mass demonstrations.
Yu said he was planning the preventive detention of anyone organising “incitement” and of those who “plot behind the scenes”. He said police were building a databank of people known for bad behaviour, singling out Chinese who use the traditional right to petition government as a means to make trouble.
A typical “troublemaker” would be 50-year-old Ye Guozhu, who is serving a four-year sentence for campaigning against evictions in Beijing to make way for the Olympic building projects. Dubbed “the Olympic prisoner” by activists, Ye has allegedly been beaten and placed in solitary confinement.
The leaked speech also disclosed that during the Games, snatch squads of security men will be posted in Tiananmen Square and other sensitive venues.
We’re going to see a lot more incidents of ASDS, I imagine.
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