[1][2] Police actions on protests aimed at Chen suppressed the display of Republic of China national flag and the playing of Taiwanese songs.
On 7 November 2008, police began removing protesters from the scene and taking them to separate locations around the city.
Having made a regrouping plan earlier, the students reconvened at Liberty Square in front of the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall.
The original protesters in Taipei issued a statement with the following demands: Government responses to the Wild Strawberry petition included these actions: The amended version of the law remained controversial at the time of drafting in May 2009.
Proposed changes fell short of student demands for a law in Taiwan that resembles assembly laws in European Union nations and the United States that give priority to constitutional guarantees of rights to peaceful assembly and free speech.