This post will probably get DCist on some sort of Internet no-no list in the People’s Republic of China … Oh well.

It’s no Tiananmen Square, but the small public park in front of the Chinese Embassy at Connecticut Avenue and Kalorama Road, has been an important venue for protesters over the years. When this DCist was still in elementary school, we saw the first protest we can ever remember. Around the time of the Tianamen Square crackdown, protesters were yelling at passing cars on Connecticut scaring the bejesus out of your young future editor. In recent years, the park has been a venue for Falun Dafa followers who have set up shop and do what they do in full view of the ever-reclusive Chinese diplomatic staff. We snapped this photo in early March, with a cadre of Falun Dafa followers sitting in the park not really bothering anyone.

But if you’ve been by in the past two weeks or so, you’ve probably noticed that the park is now fenced off. Nobody can enter now. Can any readers in Kalorama give us more details?