This photo shows one of the students who attended Fang Binxing’s now-notorious event last week at Wuhan University. Dr. Fang, the President of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, is known as the Father of the Great Firewall, and was pelted with eggs and shoes by students protesting Internet censorship. Photo taken by @hanunyi, the student who threw an egg and two shoes at Dr. Fang; one shoe hit its target.
There have been tens of thousands of tweets and micro-blog posts cheering the “Shoe” last weeks shoe event in which the father of the great firewall was pelted with eggs and a shoe.
The Telegraph newspaper in the UK reported that “four students apparently sought out Mr Fang as he gave a talk at the Computer Sciences Department of Wuhan University in central China, pre-arming themselves with eggs purchased for the occasion at a nearby market, according to their own account on Twitter.
They then threw the eggs and a show while he was giving a lecture.
Since then the China Digital Times has translated some of the twitter comments that followed the attack:
Fang Binxing, your mother is calling you to come back home to pick up your shoes!
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