Images and videos circulating online show students at universities in cities including Nanjing and Beijing holding up blank sheets of paper in silent protest.
Chinese protesters have turned to blank sheets of paper to express their anger over COVID-19 restrictions in athat has gone beyond social media to some of China’s streets and top universities.
The latest wave of anger was triggered by an apartment fire that killed 10 people on Thursday in Urumqi, a far western city where some people had been locked down for as long as 100 days, fueling speculation that COVID lockdown measures may have impeded residents’ escape. “The white paper represent everything we want to say but cannot say,” said Johnny, 26, who took part in one of the Liangma River gatherings.
Other images showed dozens of other people subsequently taking to the university’s steps with blank sheets of paper，illuminated against the night sky by flashlights from their mobile phones.“One day you’ll pay for everything you did today,” he said, in videos seen by Reuters.
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