Protests against China’s zero-Covid measures spread to Shanghai as demonstrators call for a lift on lockdowns across the country
Protesters claim that residents of the building where the fire occurred could not escape in time because the building was partially locked down.
In Shanghai, China's most populous city, residents gathered on Saturday night at the city's Wulumuqi Road — which is named after Urumqi — for a candlelight vigil that turned into a protest in the early hours of Sunday. At another point a large group began shouting, “Down with the Chinese Communist Party, down with Xi Jinping", according to witnesses and videos, in a rare public protest against the Chinese leadership. The police tried at times to break up the crowd.
The fire, and a denial by authorities that Covid measures had hampered escape and rescue, has fuelled a wave of civil disobedience unprecedented in mainland China since Xi Jinping assumed power a decade ago.
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