China is facing its largest protests since the Tiananmen Square massacre after activists call for an end to the rule of President Xi Jinping
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Hundreds of people spilled out onto the streets here in Beijing tonight to demand an end to zero covid. The gathering began as a candlelight vigil for victims in Urumqi, Xinjiang who were killed in a lockdown fire because firefighters failed to reach the blaze. pic.twitter.com/dEXxI0E0Zi
Seemingly spontaneous protest converging again at Urumqi Road in Shanghai, despite heavy police presence. People are shouting “let them go 放人!” 😮 Apparently in reference to those arrested at previous protests. pic.twitter.com/JjOvtcqFnr
No coverage of Congress drama, social media censored
Saturday’s evening news in China featured images of Hu attending the session but none of him being removed.
On China’s Twitter-like Weibo, a few social media users discussed the incident but by the evening, the comments section of almost all Weibo posts containing Hu’s name were no longer visible, according to a Reuters review.
Around 170 protesters formed a human chain in Reading town centre on Sunday, October 23. Reading Hong Kongers from the group Reading UK Stands with Hong Kong took to Broad Street to protest against the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Many Hongkongers fled their country in 2021 and arrived in the UK – which ruled the colony until it was handed back to the People’s Republic of China in 1997. Recently, protestors were allegedly assaulted outside the Chinese Consulate in Manchester and this led to Hongkongers in Reading and other parts of the country banding together to demonstrate against this.
Last Thursday, a man strung banners across a bridge in China’s capital that accused Mr Xi of being a dictator.
He was quickly detained but photos of his action spread around the world.
Since then similar signs and messages have appeared on several university campuses in the US, UK, Europe, Australia and elsewhere.
One handwritten sign at Colby College in the US state of Maine praised the Beijing man’s action and said: “We, people of China, want to spread this message that speaks our mind in places without censorship.”
Many replicate the messages displayed last week on the Sitong bridge in Beijing’s Haidian district.
At noon on October 13, Beijing time, banners were hung on an overpass at Shitongqiao (People’s University Station) in Beijing expressing dissatisfaction with the CCP’s rule and calling for strikes and school closures. Banners were hung, local traffic was paralyzed, and China has now blocked the incident on all platforms.北京时间10月13日中午，北京市石通桥（人民大学站）立交桥上悬挂横幅，表达对中共统治的不满，呼吁罢工、停课。横幅被悬挂，当地交通瘫痪，中国现已在所有平台上封锁了这起事件。
The banner reads:
strike! strike! ousted dictator Xi Jinping!
Eat uncensored and free from control!
Don’t lie, respect, don’t reform, reform!
Leaders don’t ask for votes, don’t be a slave to be a citizen!
The Beijing-imposed national security law has “extraterritorial effect,” Hong Kong’s Security Bureau has said, as a group of overseas Hong Kong citizens launch a committee to establish a “Hong Kong Parliament” in exile.
