Shanghai, China/Beijing ● Tue, November 29 2022
China’s security forces detained people on Monday at the scene of a rare demonstration as authorities worked to extinguish protests that flared across the country calling for political freedoms and an end to COVID-19 lockdowns.
AFP witnessed police leading two people away from a site in Shanghai where demonstrators gathered over the weekend, while China’s censors worked to scrub signs of the social media-driven rallies.
People took to the streets in major cities and gathered at university campuses across China on Sunday to call for an end to lockdowns and greater political freedoms, in a wave of protests not seen since prodemocracy rallies in 1989 were crushed.
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