By Monday (Nov 28) at 6.40pm a crowd of over 100 had gathered at George Washington University's Kogan Plaza. They had come to honour victims of a deadly fire in Xinjiang the week before – deaths that many blame on China's "zero-Covid" lockdowns. The plaza was adorned with candles, flowers and protest signs, but there was no event programme and.
First published at Spectre. Young, angry protesters in Shanghai confronted the police that encircled them, calling for freedom and shouting, “Aren’t you supposed to serve the people?!” Hundreds had gathered in the evening of November 26th on Urumqi Road in Shanghai, which has served as the symbolic site to hold vigils to pay tribute to the victims of a fire at a high-rise residential building in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang province.
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