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Hundreds of protesters protest against ‘COVID Zero’ policy in China implemented by Xi Jinping in the country and the Communist Party after ten people died in a fire in a narrow areawhere some say emergency personnel could not access in time due to health restrictions.
Though Chinese authorities were quick to deny it, protests erupted throughout Saturday and early Sunday. In Shanghai, hundreds of university students lit candles to mourn the deceased. and held up blank sheets of paper, a common symbol in censorship protests.
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Controversy over anti-covid measures in China after 10 people die in fire
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Several videos broadcast on social networks show how some residents are defying the strict policy against the coronavirus, movements that some witnesses interviewed by CNN describe as “Without precedents”.
The American chain reports that groups of students can be heard chanting similar slogans in the images “Resign, Xi Jinping! Withdraw, Communist Party!” https://www.elconfidencial.com/mundo/2022-11-27/chinos-protestan-ciudades-medidas-anticovid_3530358/.”I don’t want proof of covid, I want freedom!” and “I don’t want a dictatorship, I want democracy!” they added. In other videos, groups of people sing the Chinese national anthem and The Internationale, of the socialist movement, while carrying banners protesting Beijing’s strict measures. In the capital there were also protests in which, according to a witness transferred to CNN, security agents tried to cover the banners using jackets and covering the slogans with black paint.
Even in the eastern city of Nanjing, dozens of students from the University of Communications gathered to commemorate the deceased with blank papers in their hands. In the videos, translated by the North American chain, an official threatens: “They will pay for what they did today”. In parallel, the number of coronavirus infections records record figures in the country with over 40,000 infected.
Hundreds of protesters protest against ‘COVID Zero’ policy in China implemented by Xi Jinping in the country and the Communist Party after ten people died in a fire in a narrow areawhere some say emergency personnel could not access in time due to health restrictions.
