Police patrol girl protester's home

Police patrol girl protester's home
Shanghai Daily Home 2008-4-25
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/sp/article/2008/200804/20080425/article_357172.htm

WANG Deyu, father of Duke University student Grace Wang, has remained at work and seldom returns home in Qingdao, Shandong Province, these days after his daughter became a target of protests for her support of "Free Tibet" protestors in the United States."Wang refused a meeting with the police on matters of individual harassment outside his apartment. He said he does not need police protection," said Liu Guoxiang, a police officer of Qingdao Public Security Bureau.Wang, a human resource manager in Qingdao City has shunned contact with the outside.Protest slogans such as "Wake up. No Fun to Be a Traitor" were painted on the wall outside Wang's apartment."We have cleaned the graffiti, and are preparing to whitewash the wall," said Dai Guilan, a senior woman in charge of the residential committee of Zhenjiang Road, where Wang's home is.She said the neighborhood was not disturbed, nor were there any signs of protest, despite calls for such on the Internet. Many neighbors did not even know of the matter, she said."We don't see Wang Deyu and his wife very often. They seldom lived here even before the incident," said Dai.Wang's daughter, Wang Qianyuan, more widely known since the incident at Duke University by her English name of Grace Wang, was criticized by her fellow Chinese students for siding with "Free Tibet" supporters. She was reported to have used blue body paint to write "Save Tibet" slogans on the bare back of one of the organizers of an anti-China protest on her campus.The local police in Qingdao said they reinforced patrols around the neighborhood of Wang's apartment to prevent "extreme activities," without explaining what activities they expected. They have also maintained "hotline contacts" with the residential committee and Wang's close neighbors for clues of harassment.Although Wang Deyu was not available for comment, a manager from Wang's firm, Yang Zongjun, told Xinhua that Wang "worked as usual." "We didn't see anything strange. He just doesn't want to be disturbed by the incident," said Yang.Xinhua