China, BBC: one of our reporters arrested and beaten by the police

(ANSA-AFP) - LONDON, NOVEMBER 28 - The British broadcaster BBC said that one of its journalists in China, who was covering the protests in Shanghai against the draconian policy of the 'zero Covid' regime, was arrested and "beaten up by the police".

    "The BBC is very concerned about the treatment of our reporter Ed Lawrence, who was arrested and handcuffed while covering protests in Shanghai," a spokesman for the group said in a statement.

The reporter said he was "beaten and beaten by the police" while working as an accredited journalist in the country.

    Hundreds of people demonstrated this weekend in China in several major cities, including Shanghai and Beijing, to protest against the confinements and restrictions imposed by the authorities to fight the coronavirus epidemic.

    The spokesman explained that the BBC had "no official explanation or apology from the Chinese authorities, beyond a claim by officials, who later released him, that they had arrested him for his own good in case he caught Covid". in the crowd".

   (ANSA-AFP).