Protests in China: New clashes in the city of Canton against the COVID Zero policy leave at least 12 detainees

Demonstrators clashed with police in the southern city of Guangdong Chinafrom Tuesday night to Wednesday morning, according to witnesses and videos, amid a wave of nationwide protests against coronavirus restrictions.

The images geolocated by AFP show Security officers in white protective suits and riot shields advancing on a street in the Haizhu district of Cantonese while receiving glass projectiles.

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Protesters throw glass bottles at police in Houjiao, Haizhu district. They are against the restrictions due to Covid. pic.twitter.com/yeY3yl53Sa

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Barricades with blue and orange objects are also seen and screams of protesters can be heard.

The video also accounts for the arrest of about 12 men They were led away with their hands cuffed.

an inhabitant of Canton surname Chen told AFP on Wednesday that observed about 100 policemen in Houjiao villagein the Haizhu district, where at least three men were detained on Tuesday night.

The vast Chinese security apparatus was quickly mobilized to contain the protests against the rigid anti-covid originated by the fire in a confined building in urumqiin the northwestern region of xinjiang.

The fire left 10 dead last week and sparked anger against the covid-19 lockdowns.

Haizhu, a district with more than 1.8 million people, registers the bulk of the covid-19 cases in Guangzhou. Much of the area has been under lockdown since the end of October.

Weeks ago, protesters in Haizhu they broke through the confinement barriers and marched in the streets, in a rare show of public anger against the sanitary restrictions.

Videos of that protest that circulated on social media on November 14, and were verified by AFP, show hundreds of people on the streets of Haizhu.

Some broke the barriers installed to prevent the exit of people from the houses in confinement.

“trembling and crying

Meanwhile, videos posted Tuesday night on the social network China Weibo shows long lines of traffic of residents trying to leave the Tianhe district.

A student who was asked to leave her university dormitory said on Weibo: “I thought this would be the happiest time of my life (…) Now I receive an emergency notification at 01:00, I end up shaking and crying in the corridor at 2:00 a.m. and I watch my companions run away with suitcases at 3:00 a.m. At 04:00 I am sitting alone on my suitcase and I cry, waiting for my parents to arrive”.

“At 05:00 I finally get in the car and leave this people-eating site, now it’s like hell,” says the student who uses the pseudonym Ludao Lizi in a verified Weibo account.

Zhang Yi, a spokesman for the Guangzhou National Health Commission, said on Tuesday that “the epidemic in Tiahne district is advancing rapidly, and the risk of social transmission continues to grow.”

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