After the police response to the protests on 20 February , the organizers urged the participants not to shout slogans any more , but simply to stroll silently at the respective protest sites . The call to use " strolling " tactics for the 27 February gatherings was made on the Boxun.com website on 22 February . Prior to the planned 27 February gathering in front of a McDonald 's restaurant in Beijing , authorities installed metal corrugated fencing outside the restaurant and outside the home of Nobel laureate and dissident Liu Xiaobo . Hundreds of uniformed and plain-clothed security staff and volunteers wearing red armbands were pre-emptively stationed at Wangfujing . Their presence disrupted normal shopping and attracted onlookers . Police began to clear the rendezvous area half an hour after the designated assembly time
Nobel laureate
2010 Nobel Peace Prize
2011 Chinese pro-democracy protests