Despite the crackdown by the Chinese police, new protests against the quarantine policy continued yesterday evening (27th) in major cities such as Beijing and Shanghai, the capital.



"According to the video posted on the Internet, many people in Beijing visited the Liangmahe area last night to mourn the victims of the Urumqi fire with candles and flowers," said the Hong Kong Myeongbo today. A large number of police officers were dispatched to the scene,” he said.



"In Guangzhou's Haizhu District, many people gathered at the local square, and the police were alert," he added.



AFP · Reuters also reported, "On the night of the 27th, we went to protest with blank papers in Beijing to protest the zero corona policy of the authorities and the Urumqi fire disaster."



Citizens are holding a 'blank protest' holding up A4 papers with no slogans in the sense of resisting censorship.



The blank protest also appeared in the protest against the National Security Law in Hong Kong in 2020.



The Hong Kong South China Morning Post said, "In Shanghai, new protests that began late afternoon the previous day continued into the night."



"People sang national anthem and international anthems, 'People's police are for the people', 'Release the detainees', 'Long live the people'



In addition, about 500 people, mostly in their 20s, gathered at the intersection of Changshu and Wuyuan, and about 10 people said they held up placards and blank papers protesting the zero corona policy.



Witnesses at the scene told the newspaper that "the police dispersed the protesters and took some of them away" and "not only those who shouted slogans were taken."



A woman who led the singing of the national anthem at the scene said, "We did nothing wrong. We are only here to express our opinions. They do not even give us the freedom to speak. Our voices must be heard." "he said.



"Go home and watch the World Cup game" and "don't waste your energy here, go home and enjoy your life" as police tried to disperse the protesters.



Myeongbo said, "According to social media, many people gathered on the streets of Urumqi in Shanghai last night, ignoring the traffic lights, and some of them took off the street sign 'Urumqi Middle Road'." "A lot of police came and arrested people. The police A video of beating those arrested has also been uploaded."



According to social media, similar protests took place in Wuhan and Chengdu, where the Corona 19 first broke out the previous evening, the newspaper said.



Solidarity protests also took place in Hong Kong and Taiwan.



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According to the Hong Kong Free Press, at the University of Hong Kong, students held a blank paper the afternoon before and held a silent demonstration expressing solidarity with the protests in China.



Then, on the evening of the same day, two students tried to put up a poster mourning the victims of the Urumqi fire on campus, but voluntarily dispersed when the police received a report from the school.



People with blank papers and candles gathered at Freedom Square in Taipei, Taiwan, and held a solidarity event in support of Chinese protests, Myeongbo said.



Earlier, on the 24th, a fire in an apartment building in Urumqi, Sinan Uygur Autonomous Region, killed 10 people and injured 9 others.



Urumqi has been under lockdown since August.



As claims that the fire could not be extinguished in time due to blockade and caused casualties spread rapidly on social media, protests took place in various parts of China on the 26th and 27th, starting with Urumqi the next day.



More than 50 universities are known to have joined the protests.



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