China Covid Protests Live Updates, October 28: Police on Monday patrolled the scenes of weekend protests in Shanghai and Beijing after crowds there and in other cities across China demonstrated against stringent COVID-19 measures disrupting lives three years into the pandemic. From the streets of several Chinese cities to dozens of university campuses, protesters made a show of civil disobedience unprecedentedly since leader Xi Jinping assumed power a decade ago. There was no sign of new protests on Monday in Beijing or Shanghai, but dozens of police were in the areas where the weekend demonstrations took place.
UK broadcaster BBC on Sunday claimed that Chinese police had assaulted one of its journalists covering protests in Shanghai over the government’s ‘Zero Covid’ strategy and detained him for several hours. China’s foreign ministry, meanwhile, responded by saying that the reporter had not identified himself as a journalist.
Protests against strict Covid measures in China have spread to the biggest cities in the country. Nearly 1,000 people gathered in the capital Beijing, early on Monday, to demonstrate their anger over an apartment fire late last week in the far western city of Urumqi that killed 10 people. In Shanghai, hundreds of demonstrators clashed with the police on Sunday and some even called for President Xi Jinping to resign.
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