Protests in various places in China against Xi Jinping's zero covid policy

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(CNN) --

In Shanghai and various places in China, protests have erupted with hundreds of people chanting "Resign, Xi Jinping! Resign, Xi Jinping!

Withdraw, Communist Party!”, implying an unprecedented opposition against the country's strict and increasingly expensive zero-covid policy.

A deadly fire at an apartment block in the country's western Xinjiang region, which killed 10 people and injured nine on Thursday, appears to have fueled the outbreak of the protests, as video surfaced that appeared to suggest that the lockdown measures delayed the arrival of firefighters to attend to the emergency.

Protests have been taking place in cities and universities across China since Saturday and early Sunday, according to social media videos and witness accounts.

Firefighters spray water on a fire at a residential building in Urumqi, in China's west Xinjiang region, on November 24, 2022.

In multiple videos viewed by CNN, people could be heard chanting for China's leader Xi Jinping and the Communist Party to "resign."

Some videos show people singing China's national anthem and The Internationale, a standard of the socialist movement, while holding banners protesting Beijing's exceptionally strict pandemic measures.

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Videos that circulated widely on Chinese social media show hundreds of people in downtown Shanghai on Saturday holding lit candles to express condolences to those killed in the Xinjiang fire.

Demonstrators stand next to protest banners in Shanghai, China, on Saturday, November 26, 2022.

Later, the crowd held up blank sheets of paper, in what is traditionally a symbolic protest against censorship, and chanted: "Human rights are needed, freedom is needed."

Protests have also broken out in the capital city, Beijing.

A student from the prestigious Peking University told CNN that when he arrived at the protest site around 1 a.m. Sunday local time, there were around 100 students there and security guards were wearing jackets to cover a painted protest slogan. on the wall.

The student said that security guards then covered the slogan in black paint.

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Later, the students came together to sing The Internationale before being dispersed by teachers and security guards.

In the eastern city of Nanjing, dozens of students from the Communication University of China gathered to pay tribute to those who died in the Xinjiang fire.