In Beijing, the promenade along the Liangma River, in the capital’s diplomatic district, was particularly well secured. Hundreds of people had protested there on Sunday evening.
Police in the eastern port city of Shanghai blocked Wulumuqi Street to prevent large gatherings like last weekend. There, too, she was en masse on the street, after calls for new protests were made on social media.
LOOK. Images from the Chinese city of Urumqi show many people walking through the streets shouting for the strict lockdown to be lifted.
Last weekend, thousands of people took to the streets in several cities in China to express their displeasure with the government’s strict corona approach, with repeated lockdowns, mandatory quarantines, mass testing and constant monitoring via corona apps. It was the largest protest in China since 1989 for democratic reforms, which was brutally crushed.