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View all search resultsChina moves to curb and censor rare, nationwide protests
AFP witnessed police leading two people away from a site in Shanghai where demonstrators gathered over the weekend, while China's censors worked to scrub signs of the social media-driven rallies.
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hina's security forces detained people on Monday at the scene of a rare demonstration as authorities worked to extinguish protests that flared across the country calling for political freedoms and an end to COVID-19 lockdowns.
AFP witnessed police leading two people away from a site in Shanghai where demonstrators gathered over the weekend, while China's censors worked to scrub signs of the social media-driven rallies.
People took to the streets in major cities and gathered at university campuses across China on Sunday to call for an end to lockdowns and greater political freedoms, in a wave of protests not seen since prodemocracy rallies in 1989 were crushed.
A deadly fire last week in Urumqi, the capital of northwest China's Xinjiang region, was the catalyst for the public anger, with many blaming COVID-19 lockdowns for hampering rescue efforts.
But protesters also called for greater political freedoms – with some even demanding the resignation of China's President Xi Jinping, recently reappointed to a historic third term as the country's leader.
In the latest development on Monday, Xinjiang eased some COVID-19 restrictions in Urumqi, following last week’s deadly fire that sparked protests across the country.
People in the city of 4 million, some of whom have been confined to their homes for weeks on end, can travel around on buses to run errands within their home districts starting Tuesday, officials said at a press conference on Monday.
