Protests against China's strict “zero-Covid” policies spread across the country and resurface in Shanghai after police cleared away hundreds of demonstrators early Sunday morning with force and pepper spray
A protester who declined to be named said that he saw multiple people being taken away, forced by police into vans, but could not identify them.
Posters circulated online calling for further action in Shanghai and in Chengdu, a major city in China's southwest, on Sunday evening. Shanghai's protest called for the release of those taken away.Internet users showed solidarity by posting blank white squares on their WeChat timelines or on Weibo. By Sunday morning, the hashtag "white paper exercise" had been blocked on Weibo.
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