Demonstrators hold banners, portraits of China's late Chairman Mao Zedong, and Chinese national flags next to policemen outside the headquarters of Southern Weekly newspaper in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, January 8, 2013. Chinese police broke up scuffles outside the gates of a prominent newspaper in southern Guangzhou on Tuesday, as Communist Party authorities showed signs of a taking a harder line against journalists defying official censorship.
The Chinese Characters on the right banner said "Support China's Communist Party chief Xi Jinping, ardently love China's Communist Party, develop in the way of common prosperity." The Chinese Characters on the banners (front, L to R) read "Is there still 'weekends' in Southern China?", "Chinese dream, dream of constitutionalism; dream of constitutionalism, my dream", "Readers from Hunan province voluntarily support Southern Weekly". The Chinese characters on the mask read "I want to speak." REUTERS/James Pomfret(