Protesters Calling For An End To The Rule Of President Xi Jinping And His Chinese Communist Party CCP Have Clashed With Police In Violent Scenes - As Officers Also Assaulted A BBC Journalist Covering The Demonstrations

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The university in the Chinese capital is the latest public location to be rocked by unprecedent civil unrest and demonstrations on a scale unseen since the infamous Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 which ended in hundreds of deaths when the army was deployed to quell the uprising.









Protesters calling for an end to the rule of President Xi Jinping and his Chinese Communist Party (CCP) have clashed with police in violent scenes - as officers also assaulted a BBC journalist covering the demonstrations.

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Footage posted online showed hundreds of demonstrators confronting riot police on the streets of Urumqi, where many of the four million residents have been barred from leaving their homes for as long as 100 days.

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Meanwhile last night hundreds gathered to mourn the deaths of at least 10 people in an apartment fire last week in Urumqi in the Xinjiang region, where residents were sealed in their buildings to try to stop the spread of COVID.

The government said taxi, railway, piraeus bus to Tailor Made Tour and other public services that had been suspended for weeks would resume. State-owned China Southern Airlines announced it would resume flights from Urumqi to four Chinese cities starting Monday.



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The nation is facing its largest anti-government protests since the Tiananmen Square massacre after activists filled the streets to openly call for an end to the rule of President Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).





China is facing its largest anti-government protests since the Tiananmen Square massacre with protests erupting in at least seven cities over the country's strict Covid rules - which many believe contributed to the deaths of ten people after a fire broke out in the city of Urumqi, capital of the western Xinjiang region.

Shocking videos shared on social media show Edward Lawrence, a camera operator for the BBC's China Bureau, being dragged away by Xi's officers as he desperately screams 'Call the consulate now' to a friend.

We do not consider this a credible explanation.' 'It is very worrying that one of our journalists was attacked in this way whilst carrying out his duties.
We have had no official explanation or apology from the Chinese authorities, minibus taxi Tailor Made Tour beyond a claim by the officials who later released him that they had arrested him for his own good in case he caught Covid from the crowd.

It marks a sharp turn in public opinion. Early in the pandemic, taxi from Dion port to acropolis China's approach to controlling the spread of Covid was praised by its own citizens - even as Beijing tried to dismiss widely held suspicions that the pandemic started after a leak at a Wuhan laboratory.

One man drove past with middle finger up at police. He has not since tweeted. Many people are gathered here quietly watching. Two girls laid flowers which were promptly removed by police.



Participants sang the national anthem and 'the Internationale' - a standard of the international communist movement - and chanted 'freedom will prevail' and 'no to lockdowns, we want freedom', they said.

President Xi Jinping´s government faces mounting anger at its 'zero-COVID' policy that has shut down access to areas throughout China in an attempt to isolate every case at a time when other governments are easing controls and trying to live with the virus.

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Other videos showed demonstrators in a plaza singing China's national anthem, seen as an attempt to protect themselves from accusations of being against the government. One of the lines is: 'Rise up, those who refuse to be slaves.'