Amazing, stunning protests happening across China, at a scale not seen in decades. Such incredible bravery & courage. As my @hrw colleague @Yaqiu says it’s **so important** journalists, diplomats & governments around the world do all they can to report on this & give it attention https://t.co/9mnnMkQgPY
— Sophie McNeill (@Sophiemcneill) November 27, 2022
This is now on Wulumuqi (=Urumqi) lu in #Shanghai. People holding up white sheets of paper. ‘We don’t need to write anything on it. It is a symbol of the revolution of the people’, someone says. (Don’t manage to send videos.) pic.twitter.com/oWwyADTHuX
— Eva Rammeloo (@eefjerammeloo) November 26, 2022
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. pic.twitter.com/AHPVRkhuku
— Franka Lu (@FrankaLu) November 26, 2022
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 pic.twitter.com/1vYvClModf
— Franka Lu (@FrankaLu) November 26, 2022
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. pic.twitter.com/2DeNMPRZyC
— Franka Lu (@FrankaLu) November 26, 2022
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!”
— Franka Lu (@FrankaLu) November 26, 2022
Students shouted back: “One day this country will pay a price (for what is has done to the people)!” pic.twitter.com/8NuffwM7pd
“Han Chinese people know they will not be punished if they speak against the lockdown,” she said, declining to be named for fear of retaliation against her family. “Uyghurs are different. If we dare say such things, we will be taken to prison or to the camps.”
— Dake Kang (@dakekang) November 26, 2022
This footage is astonishing, showing protesters in the Kunlun Lake community in Hotan, Xinjiang (37.0909, 79.9467) advancing on & breaking through police lines. Hotan is 98% Uyghur (pre-crackdown) & seeing this level of resistance in Hotan is something I couldn't have imagined. https://t.co/OPHsKJJ8YY
— Nathan Ruser (@Nrg8000) November 26, 2022
Incredible footage from #China’s #Shanghai, where countless people gathered at a road called “#Urumqi road,” chanting a slogan “Step down, the Communist Party” very loudly. https://t.co/6YBpfbxsox
— William Yang (@WilliamYang120) November 26, 2022
Protests erupting across the country, demanding the end of zero covid restrictions. Really feels like things are getting to a breaking point. https://t.co/uFjJNtoKd6
— Dake Kang (@dakekang) November 26, 2022
After a very long night on Saturday where protests erupted from Urumqi to Shanghai, the biggest next update today is the thousands-strong rally at Beijing’s Tsinghua University—one of China’s elite institutions—earlier today on Sunday. https://t.co/zuJId6cD6A
— promiseli@kolektiva.social (@promiseli0) November 27, 2022
1/ protest outbreaks in Wuhan China now
— 巴丢草 Bad ї ucao (@badiucao) November 27, 2022
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“They have already sent out notices saying anyone not following the Government’s narrative on this fire will face consequences.”
— Stop Uyghur Genocide (@UyghurStop) November 26, 2022
Our Executive Director @MahmutRahima on the tower block fire in Urumchi + the anti-lockdown protests that erupted in the city last night. /1 pic.twitter.com/ZndkEqwOTy
补充视频
— 李老师不是你老师 (@whyyoutouzhele) November 27, 2022
大约19点左右有人在上海乌鲁木齐路一棵树上贴了白纸，15秒后被警察抓走。群众表示不满聚集在一起喊放人，视频中可以听到有人喊“只是贴了张白纸而已”，但是警察并无响应，随后暴力推搡人群想让人群后退，即视频中镜头混乱的那一段。 pic.twitter.com/5hZRrJ4Hsh
Students from the elite school Tsinghua University protested with Friedmann equation. I have no idea what this equation means, but it does not matter.
— Nathan Law 羅冠聰 (@nathanlawkc) November 27, 2022
It's the pronunciation: it's similar to "free的man" (free man)—a spectacular and creative way to express, with intelligence. pic.twitter.com/m5zomeTRPF
When police ask the protesters not to chant “no more lockdowns”, so they chant this instead:
— Tony Lin 林東尼 (@tony_zy) November 27, 2022
“MORE LOCKDOWNS!”
“I WANT TO DO COVID TESTS!”
Folks. Let me remind you this brave effort also encapsulates the highest Chinese wisdom: weaponized passive aggressiveness. pic.twitter.com/PlzK2PCiMW
Armoured Units getting trucked into Shanghai https://t.co/FNRdJ4PrX1
— Tze Ming Mok (@tzemingdynasty@mastodon.social) (@tzemingdynasty) November 27, 2022
上海久光百貨門口，一男子舉牌：“你知道我要說什麼？”
— Onicha (@onicha114514) November 28, 2022
既表達了内涵，又保護了自己。為他的睿智點讚！👍👍 pic.twitter.com/6pLsAAmgZS
NEW: Tune in tonight at 10 PM EST to hear from activists’ analysis on #ChinaProtests. Speakers include @tengbiao @lhadon @DrewPavlou & more. https://t.co/1AqX10YwvP
— Students for a Free Tibet (@SFTHQ) November 29, 2022
In this Space yesterday, @Yaqiu also trashed the mistaken, yet widespread, belief that people in China somehow only care about economic growth & material goods, not freedom.
— Andrew Stroehlein (@astroehlein) November 29, 2022
"It's deep inside everyone… human rights, freedom – it's universal…" https://t.co/hI7LKpVoMX
Chinese citizens have been protesting the lockdown measures in smaller scales for a while now.
— promiseli@kolektiva.social (@promiseli0) November 29, 2022
People abroad had two years to figure out they weren’t just right-wing anti-vaxxer demands if they kept up with Chinese politics at all.
I am so touched & amazed to see young ppl in China take to the streets and protest, many for the first time, without having been taught that it is their right to shout at the government and make demands.
— Frankie Huang 黄碧赤 🚦 (@ourobororoboruo) November 29, 2022
No matter where this leads, it is a turning point.https://t.co/5YA9Ugvv6N
I’m glad to see protesters directly attacking the “foreign forces” line from the government. I think we didn’t rebut this forcefully enough in 2019, perhaps because it was so absurd that many of us assumed no one would be stupid enough to believe it (we were wrong). https://t.co/vGvAtwudhZ
— Samuel Bickett (@SamuelBickett) November 29, 2022
My dad, Elijan Mamut is still missing since 2017 along with millions of other Uyghurs.
— Shayida Ali (@sydaaaAli) November 30, 2022
Until this day, there is no news about him.
I want freedom for my father, my family, and my fellow Uyghurs! #UrumchiFire #UyghurGenocide
We verified videos from Monday and Tuesday showing protesters in Haizhu district of Guangzhou city clashing with police. We examined the locations of videos and corroborated with witness accounts. W/ @amy_changchien https://t.co/y2nicnvz4W pic.twitter.com/iJ07XP6eIE
— Muyi Xiao (@muyixiao) November 30, 2022
Auckland Peace Action 