People were shouting: “Down with the Communist Party! “Down with Xi Jinping!” “We want freedom!”
Every of these slogans is enough to send a person to jail for 10 years or even a life risk. twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Meanwhile, at least a dozen university have seen their students protesting today.
This is the worst nightmare for Beijing since the Tiananmen massacre in 1989.
V for Vendetta, “Give me freedom or give me death”, “Long Live the People”, “We demand truth, rights and freedom”… I never seen such a large scale of angry and outspoken protest by Chinese students since 1989.
Cao Guozheng, the President of Communication University of China, Nanjing, threatened the protesting students: “One day you will all pay a price for what you are doing!”
Students shouted back: “One day this country will pay a price (for what is has done to the people)!”
Cao pointed his finger at a female student and threatened: “Do you dare to tell me your name?”
She shouted out her name fearlessly. And many other students shouted their names one by one too.
During the day, a man holding up a piece of paper written with “You know what I want to say” in front of the shopping mall in #Shanghai. He was later taken away by the police. #China
In Beijing, residents of dozens of compounds have organized themselves to challenge the lockdown enforcers and demand them to reopen the locked entrance. It seems that they have all succeeded, including Tiantongyuan, a massive community with 300,000 residents. twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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I have spent the whole night watching videos and reading posts of angry protests in China.
After a horrifying tragedy in Urumqi, a large demonstration broke out in this city. The city has been under inhumane lockdown for more than 100 days.
All over China, people are shaken by the videos of victims trapped in locked buildings and begging for help. 10 people died, including 2 Uighur children.
Iron lockdown fence and cars parked in the compound made it impossible for the fire engine to enter it.
There were also stone blockade stopping vehicles from entering the compound. All fire escapes were welded, and the gate was locked. All in the name of “pandemic control”.
These control measures stopped the residents from escaping the fire.
I hesitated for a day whether to share this audio, and finally decide to do so.
This is the recording of a Chinese girl crying behind a welded gate of her building, begging to be let out because her mother jump off the building in another long lockdown in Hohhot City.
In the wechat group chat of the neighbors of the poor young daughter, several women trying to help the girl, demanding the neighborhood committee staffs (who guarded and welded the gate) to let them out to accompany her.
Chinese netizens were furious.
The mother was still wearing a mask when she committed suicide.
Many Chinese local governments still demand people to wear masks when they are outdoor.
Couples in #Shanghai refused to be shipped to quarantine camps. An official threatened: “You would be taken away by force, which will be marked in your record and affect your next 3 generations.” The young man said: “We’re the last generation. Thanks.” He was applauded…
…by many young netizens, who started a #LastGeneration movement online.
“…an ultimate declaration. Either such a life ends in our generation, or we are ended by this life.”
“(Student protester in) 1989: ‘This is my duty.’
“2022: ‘We are the last generation.’” #ChinaLockdown
#LastGeneration hashtag was soon banned on Weibo.
But its fierce defiance has encouraged many young people.