Thread by @FrankaLu

Shanghai people are demonstrating against the lockdown. This is a live broadcast. Many police have surrounded the protestors.

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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.
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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…