VANCOUVER – Hundreds of individuals have rallied in Vancouver in sympathy with uncommon protests which might be sweeping throughout China in response to the nation’s hardline zero-COVID lockdown insurance policies.
The protesters exterior the Vancouver Art Gallery Sunday night time additionally mourned the deaths of no less than 10 folks in an condo fireplace within the Xinjiang area that critics blame on the anti-virus controls which have restricted tens of millions of individuals to their houses in China.
Read extra:
China possible ‘very worried’ over zero-COVID protests, specialists say. What’s occurring?
Read More
Protesters lit candles and held up clean sheets of paper, in what has change into a Chinese image of dissent.
The crowd chanted slogans in English and Mandarin in opposition to the Chinese Communist Party and known as on President Xi Jinping to step down.
Protests broke out over the weekend in no less than 10 Chinese cities, together with Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing and Guangzhou, a scale that’s extremely uncommon.
Xi’s authorities faces mounting anger at its zero-COVID insurance policies which have shut down entry to areas all through China in an try and isolate each case at a time when different international locations are easing controls.
— With recordsdata from The Associated Press
