Hong Kong performance artist Chen Shi-sen mounted a one-man protest yesterday in front of the police station in Huangcun Jie, Guangzhou, where student Sun Zhigang was held for three days before he died in a police clinic.
Chen, who is better known by his Japanese pseudonym Miki, stood in the rain for more than half an hour, his head wrapped in a page of the April 25 edition of Southern Metropolitan News, which carried the story of Sun's beating and death.
He stood for about 20 minutes across the road from the police station before an officer came out and asked him what he was doing.
'I'm putting on a performance act,' Chen told the policeman, who asked to see his identity papers.
'It's raining. Why don't you go home and do your act?' the officer asked, before going back inside the police station.
Ten minutes later, Chen moved across the road and closer to the entrance to the compound of the police station. After a while, two plainclothes officers asked him to remove the newspaper so they could take his photo.
'I told them I put on this act just to ask a simple question. Can someone die just like that? Can you treat someone like that?' said Chen. As he wrapped up his act by screaming accusations at them, the two officers crossed the road to where a group of about a dozen artists and reporters were standing.