The zero tolerance policy for the coronavirus has led to massive protests across the country.
In the Chinese capital Beijing and many other cities on the night of Monday, November 28, mass protests continued against the harsh restrictive measures attributed to the country’s authorities in the fight against the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.
In Beijing, protesters took to the streets near the diplomatic quarter, many of them holding white papers as a symbol of protest against censorship in the country, dpa news agency reported.
People are shouting: “Remove the quarantine” and “We don’t want PCR tests, we want freedom.” Police were involved, the exact number of detainees is unknown.
Protest marches were also held in other Chinese cities: Shanghai, Chengdu, Chongqing, Wuhan and Nanjing. Discontent is also growing in universities, social networks are overflowing with videos that are quickly removed by censors, writes dpa.
It was the largest protest in China since the 1989 democracy movement, which was brutally suppressed by the military on June 4 of that year and became known as the “Tiananmen Massacre,” the agency said.
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The BBC reported the reporter was beaten in Shanghai
While covering protests in Shanghai, BBC correspondent Ed Lawrence was detained and beaten by police, the corporation said. According to him, the journalist was beaten. In addition, Lawrence was handcuffed and held for several hours before being released, the BBC said.
Official Beijing did not comment on the incident in any way, the service said. Police said they detained the journalist to prevent him from infecting the crowd with the coronavirus. “We do not consider this to be a plausible explanation,” the BBC said in a statement.
Protests erupt after fires in Xinjiang
Chinese authorities are pursuing a so-called zero-tolerance policy for the coronavirus: entire neighborhoods are cordoned off in cities, people who have come into contact with the infected are forcibly quarantined, the infected are isolated from others. hospital, the country’s borders remain effectively closed. .
Protests began after a fire at a residential building in the city of Urumqi in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China.
As a result of the fire on the night of November 24, at least ten people died and nine others were injured. As eyewitnesses noted, people could not escape because the doors of the apartments were blocked due to the lockdown, and the restrictive measures hampered the work of rescuers.
Chinese authorities deny this information.
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