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Protests in China: BBC reporter arrested and ill-treated - "Down with Xi Jinping" shouts

2022-11-28T10:57:13.266Z


Protests in China: BBC reporter arrested and ill-treated - "Down with Xi Jinping" shouts Created: 11/28/2022, 11:47 am By: Markus Hofstetter In China, protests against the tough anti-corona measures continue. Many people are arrested. The government is sticking to its course. Protests in China : BBC reporter arrested and mistreated. Fight against Covid-19 in China : government sticks to tough


Protests in China: BBC reporter arrested and ill-treated - "Down with Xi Jinping" shouts

Created: 11/28/2022, 11:47 am

By: Markus Hofstetter

In China, protests against the tough anti-corona measures continue.

Many people are arrested.

The government is sticking to its course.

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Beijing – Numerous people have been arrested in the largest wave of protests in China in decades.

The weekend demonstrations lasted in many cities until Monday night.

According to the ARD Tagesschau, an estimated several hundred people came together in various places in Beijing.

Resistance to Corona Measures in China: People Shout “Down with Xi Jinping”

The demonstrations in Beijing were preceded by protests in Shanghai and other cities such as Chengdu, Chongqing, Wuhan, Nanjing, Guangzhou and Urumqi.

In Shanghai, people sang the Chinese national anthem and the international several times, according to the AFP news agency.

They demanded an end to lockdowns and freedom.

They also shouted "Long live the people" and "I love China".

As a symbol of resistance and protest against censorship, many demonstrators held up blank white sheets.

Slogans like “lift the lockdown” and “we don’t want PCR tests, we want freedom” were shouted.

In the meantime, the demonstrators are also targeting the government.

Cries of “Down with the Communist Party! Down with the Communist Party!

Down with Xi Jinping!”

Demonstrators hold up blank papers to protest against the Corona measures and censorship.

© Ng Han Guan/dpa/picture alliance

Protests in China: BBC reporter arrested and mistreated

In Shanghai, the police sometimes acted harshly against demonstrators, and numerous people were arrested.

Among them was BBC reporter Ed Lawrence, who said he was abused by police officers.

"The BBC is extremely concerned at the treatment of our journalist Ed Lawrence, who was arrested and handcuffed while covering the Shanghai protests," said a spokesman for the British broadcaster.

Lawrence was punched and kicked by police officers when he was arrested, even though he has accreditation as a journalist.

He was only released hours later.

There has been no official explanation or apology for the incident from the Chinese authorities, the spokesman said.

The fact that the police claimed upon release that Lawrence was only taken into custody to protect him from contracting coronavirus in the crowd is "not a credible explanation".

The trigger for the protests in China: Corona-related road closures are said to have hindered the use of fire brigades

The people's displeasure is directed against the strict measures of the Chinese zero-Covid policy.

These include repeated lockdowns, mass testing and forced quarantine.

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The trigger for the current protests was a house fire in Urumqi, the capital of the Chinese region of Xinjiang, in which ten people died last Thursday (November 24).

Local residents complain that the fire brigade should not have reached the scene of the accident in time due to road closures caused by the corona virus.

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Fight against Covid-19 in China: government sticks to tough anti-corona course

Despite the protests against the strict corona measures, Beijing has reiterated its belief in the success of its strict pandemic policy.

At a press conference on Monday, when asked about the demonstrations, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said the question was not "factual" and said: "We believe that with the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party and the support of the Chinese people, our fight against Covid-19 be successful.”

But the measures seem to be in vain, the country is currently being hit by the worst corona wave since the pandemic began almost three years ago.

The Health Commission reported on Monday (November 28) with around 40,000 new infections again a high in the country.

In Beijing there were almost 3,900 cases.

Source: merkur

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