in an apartment fire last week. some people blame draconian covid restrictions for hampering rescue teams. earlier, i spoke to isabel hilton, who s founder of the london based nonprofit organisation china dialogue, and a visiting professor at the lau institute at king s college london. i began by asking for her view of the protests. i think they ve been surprised by the vehemence of the feelings, the numbers of people and the spread of the protest. difficult to do a harsh visible repression, every has camera phones, the sight of people being beaten at this point could inflame things. they are smothering them, interfering with social media, news dispersal, putting up barriers. more and more police on the street. making it harder for people to gather in significant numbers, and help to calm it down. the working week has begun. people will be going back to work,
was beaten and kicked by police, before being held for several hours. chinese officials say he was detained, as a precaution against being infected with covid by demonstrators. earlier i spoke to isabel hilton, who s founder of the london based nonprofit organisation china dialogue, and a visiting professor at the lau institute at king s college london. i began by asking for her view of the protests. i think they ve been surprised by the vehemence of the feelings, the numbers of people, the spread of the protests, and what that makes it quite difficult to do a harsh, visible repression. everyone has camera phones and the site of the parties agents beating the people at this point could well inflame things. so they re smothering them. you know, they re interfering with social media news dispersal. they re putting up barriers. you see more and more police on the street. they re just going to make it much