- China's police have been detaining people protesting against the newly reimposed harsh Covid policies in some of its biggest cities.
- This is an unprecedented open show of displeasure towards President Xi Jinping, and some citizans are calling for him to resign
- A reporter from BBC was beaten and arrested by police while covering the protests
- This weekend, crowds of protestors took to the streets in the capital Beijing as well as Shanghai and other cities.
- People are fed up with Xi's zero-Covid approach, which involves mass testing, quarantines and snap lockdowns