According to a report by US-based entertainment outlet The Hollywood Reporter, a video went viral across the Chinese social media portal 'WeChat' where purported protesters from Shanghai are seen chanting, "I Wanna See a Movie!"
Over the weekend, thousands of people in Shanghai, China's biggest city and financial center, began publicly protesting the government's strict Covid-19 measures and denouncing the Chinese Communist Party's authoritarian rule.
Hundreds of protestors demonstrated in cities across China against President Xi Jinping's zero-Covid strategy, with some of them even calling for his removal. "Step down, Xi Jinping! Step down, Communist Party!" CNN quoted some people as yelling during a protest in the financial hub of Shang
Hundreds of demonstrators and police have clashed in Shanghai as protests over China's severe COVID-19 restrictions continued into the third day and spread to several other cities.
According to a report by The Hollywood Reporter, citing South China Morning Post, the CCTV's sports channel snipped images of fans without masks during the match between Costa Rica and Japan. It replaced them with images of players and other officials.
This large-scale protest was apparently sparked by an apartment block fire in Urumqi, the capital of the Xinjiang province, which killed at least 10 people on Thursday and has acted as a catalyst for searing public anger.
In Turkey, a protest was carried out by Uyghur activists in Istanbul at 2:00 am in the early hours of November 26 near the historic Hagia Sophia mosque where Uyghurs gathered braving the cold shivering winter, according to media reports. Nearly a hundred activists including Uyghur groups.
Binoy Viswam, in a letter to the Union Finance Minister, said, "I write this letter to express my protest and to vehemently oppose the absurd decision of the Finance Ministry to limit the pre-Budget consultation meeting with the trade unions for just 75 minutes alone, that too in virtual mod
A fire in a residential high-rise in Urumqi, where many residents have been under lockdown, set off public anger and questions about China's zero-Covid policy.