COVID Lockdown Protests Erupt In Beijing, Xinjiang After Deadly Fire
Francesco Abbruzzino, The Uncensored Report, LLC
Protests have erupted in Beijing and the far western Xinjiang region over COVID-19 lockdowns and a deadly fire on Thursday in a high-rise building in Urumqi that killed 10 people (with some reports putting the number as high as 40).
Crowds took to the street in Urumqi, the capitol of Xinjiang, with protesters chanting “End the lockdown!” while pumping their fists in the air, following the circulation of videos of the fire on Chinese social media on Friday night.
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Massive protest happened in Ulumuqi，Xinjiang，China after more than 100 days zero-covid city lockdown.
People are chanting ‘stop lockdown’ ‘we are human being’ pic.twitter.com/trQhDSZLXr
— 巴丢草 Bad ї ucao (@badiucao) November 25, 2022
Protest videos show people in a plaza singing China’s national anthem – particularly the line: “Rise up, those who refuse to be slaves!” Others shouted that they did not want lockdowns. In the northern Beijing district of Tiantongyuan, residents tore down signs and took to the streets.
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3/ protestors from Urumqi were singing China‘s national anthem while waving a flag.
Quite common in China’s protest，we call it ‘举着红旗反红旗‘ wave the flag while against it.
Its a self-protraction meaning ’ i am against a policy not the nation/CCP‘. pic.twitter.com/XqworKWUnb— 巴丢草 Bad ї ucao (@badiucao) November 25, 2022
China 🇨🇳
Protests are erupting across China as people have had enough of the draconian zero Covid lockdowns. This is what eventually happens when people power mobilises against oppressive governments that take away freedoms and human dignity. pic.twitter.com/NsZgZTxEYT
— James Melville (@JamesMelville) November 27, 2022
WATCH: Large protest at Beijing’s Tsinghua University in China over Covid lockdowns pic.twitter.com/BjoEcFKN2I
— Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) November 27, 2022
People across China are holding up blank sheets of paper to protest CCP censorship pic.twitter.com/EioeAYBg6t
— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) November 27, 2022
Protests in China are not rare. What *is* rare, are multiple protests over the same issue, at the same time, across the country. The protest below, apparently in central Beijing’s liangmaqiao, is astounding #China #protests pic.twitter.com/UHJCqqF1YG
— Tom Mackenzie (@TomMackenzieTV) November 27, 2022