Demonstrations that took place in Chinese cities for days against strict lockdown measures have crept into Shanghai and the capital Beijing, and hundreds of demonstrators took part in protests against strict entry restrictions, according to a witness and video, according to Agence France-Presse, citing a witness and video. . the fight against Covid at Tsinghua University in Beijing, and in the city of Shanghai since dawn this Sunday, demonstrations have been taking place, according to eyewitnesses, in protest against the strict quarantine measures applied by the authorities under the country’s “zero Covid” policy for almost three years.
Hundreds of students from the prestigious Tsinghua University in Beijing took part in a demonstration today against the Chinese government’s Covid-19 policy, and one student told a French news agency, “Students have started raising banners at the entrance. to the dining room, then new people successively joined them, ”and added:“ Now there are from two hundred to three hundred people. We sang the national anthem and the anthem of the International and chanted (Freedom will win).”
Video clips were circulated on the Internet showing a crowd in front of a university restaurant gathered around a loudspeaker and shouting, “This is not a normal life. We are tired. Our lives were never like this before!”
And another video clip, apparently filmed on the same site, showed students chanting “democracy and the rule of law, freedom of speech” but was quickly removed from the internet.