Action at universities across country follows week of unrest against draconian lockdown restrictions.
| Unprecedented protests against COVID-19 restrictions broke out at universities across China at the weekend, as students commemorated the deaths of 10 people in Xinjiang believed to have been linked to a draconian lockdown in the region.
Students at the Communication University of China in Nanjing, about 355 kilometres from Urumqi, marched on their campus to commemorate those killed in the blaze, according to footage and pictures on social media. Those posts were quickly censored.The students held flashlights and carried signs with messages such as “I’ll be a free bird in my next life, so I’m not afraid of the flames” and “May the Chinese youth get over the apathy” - a quote from Chinese author Lu Xun.
Videos also circulated on social media appearing to show small-scale civil disobedience against lockdowns in residential compounds in Beijing and other cities. They could not immediately be verified.Such displays are extremely rare in China, where authorities move quickly to squash open forms of dissent.
The apartment block where the fire was had previously been under lockdown, though it was not clear if that was still the case when the fire broke out.
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