Covid protests widen in China after Urumqi fire

Protests against Covid restrictions successful China look to person intensified pursuing a occurrence which killed 10 radical successful an flat artifact successful Urumqi.

In the metropolis of Shanghai, videos posted connected societal media by overseas journalists amusement hundreds of radical calling for President Xi Jinping to basal down.

People were seen lighting candles and laying flowers for the victims.

Students besides gathered astatine galore universities to retrieve the victims of the occurrence successful the Xinjiang region.

Many radical person blamed their deaths connected the lockdown of residential buildings - thing Chinese authorities person denied was the cause.

At the gathering successful Shanghai, radical were heard shouting slogans specified arsenic "Xi Jinping, measurement down" and "Communist party, measurement down". Some besides held blank achromatic banners.

Though the concern successful the country had calmed by Sunday morning, the BBC saw a heightened constabulary beingness successful the country of the protest, with respective twelve constabulary officers, backstage information guards and plain-clothed constabulary officers connected the streets.

Elsewhere, successful respective Chinese universities, photos and videos emerged online of students protesting connected Saturday night. The largest gathering seemed to beryllium astatine Nanjing Communications University.

The videos are hard to independently verify, but galore of them suggest determination has been a existent displacement successful people's mentalities.

The unfastened show and request for President Xi to resign is the astir explicit and outspoken disapproval we person ever seen successful an different highly benign and obedient Chinese society.