China's Xinjiang loosens some restrictions after lockdown protests

Anti-lockdown protests break out in cities across China after deadly fire linked to COVID-19 restrictions

In addition to Shanghai, protests took place in Beijing and the major cities of Nanjing and Guangzhou among others, according to social media posts

Angry protest against China's lockdown policy

Beijing's renowned Tsinghua University and Shanghai are now affected. Previously, there have already been actions in China's megacity Ürümqi. People are struggling with the government's rigid zero-COVID policy.

'Xi Jinping, step down!': Protests erupt across China over Covid restrictions

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Xinjiang loosens some restrictions after lockdown protests

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Authorities in China’s western Xinjiang region opened up some neighborhoods in the capital of Urumqi on Saturday after residents held extraordinary late-night demonstrations against the city’s draconian “zero-COVID” lockdown that had lasted more than three months.The displays of public defiance were fanned by anger over a fire in an apartment compound that had killed 10, according to the official death toll, as emergency workers…

Xinjiang Loosens Some Restrictions After Lockdown Protests

Authorities in China's western Xinjiang region opened up some neighborhoods in the capital of Urumqi on Saturday after residents held extraordinary late-night demonstrations against the city's zero-COVID lockdown that had lasted more than three months. The displays of public defiance were fanned by anger over a fire in an apartment compound that killed 10 people, according to the official death toll, as emergency workers took three hours to exti…

Lockdown protests gain strength in China after fire

A fire in a building in the Xinjiang province, in Northwest China, prompted protests over the suspension of the Covid zero policy. The saturation with respect to measures imposed by the Chinese regime to control the spread of the virus has increased in recent weeks. Last Thursday, a fire in a residential building in Urumqi left at least ten people dead. Posts on Chinese social media insinuate that the Covid quarantine in neighborhoods of the cit…