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  • 2022-12-02 (xsd:date)
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  • [a] Chinese journalist was repeatedly hampered and even physically assaulted and eventually convicted by a British court (en)
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  • On November 27, Chinese police assaulted and arrested a BBC journalist covering a COVID-19 protest in Shanghai, according to the British national broadcaster. Video of the incident had circulated on social media.The arrest came as protests swept China following public outrage over a deadly fire in an apartment building in Urumqi, the capital of far western Xinjiang province. Many in China believe that the COVID-19 restrictions delayed firefighters’ rescue efforts.Demonstrators voiced fury over China’s increasingly costly zero-COVID policy, the stringent approach to the pandemic championed by President Xi Jinping. Protests in Shanghai and Beijing even called for the removal of Xi and the ruling Communist Party. The widespread protests became a show of public defiance unprecedented since the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests.After the BBC condemned reporter Edward Lawrence’s arrest as unjustified, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zhao Lijian objected.On November 29, Zhao accused the BBC of twist[ing] the story (en)
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