Protests against China’s strict “zero-COVID” policies resurfaced in Shanghai and Beijing, continuing demonstrations that spread across the country since a deadly apartment fire in the city of Urumqi led to questions over such rigid anti-virus measures.
in which people struggled to secure groceries and medicines and were forcefully taken into centralized quarantine.
Hundreds of protesters had gathered along a street in Shanghai starting around midnight on Saturday. They split into two different sections of Middle Urumqi Road. There was one group that was more calm and brought candles, flowers and signs honoring those who died in the apartment fire. The other, said a protester who declined to be named out of fear of arrest, was more active, shouting slogans and singing the national anthem.The energy was encouraging, the protester said.
Zhao says protesters yelled slogans including “ do not want PCR , but want freedom,” in reference to the protestAfter three years of harsh lockdowns that have left people confined in their homes for weeks at a time, the Xinjiang fire appears to have finally broken through the Chinese public’s ability to tolerate the harsh measures.
In Beijing, students at the nation’s top college, Tsinghua University, held a demonstration Sunday afternoon in front of one of the school’s cafeterias. Three young women had stood there initially with a simple message of condolence for the victims of the Urumqi apartment fire, according to a witness, who declined to be named out of fear of retribution.
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