Chinese authorities interrogated people suspected of involvement in the 'zero covid' protests amid widespread confusion over whether harsh pandemic measures would continue.
, said for the first time that they would “resolutely crack down” on the demonstrations.
Yang, a 27-year-old who attended a weekend rally in the resort town of Dali, where people marched on downtown streets and sang protest anthem “The Internationale,” said he was visited by police officers at home. Three of his friends, students at a local university, were told by their school to provide written accounts of their activities on threat of expulsion.
In Beijing and Shanghai, police checked the phones of people in the vicinity of protest sites for the messaging app Telegram and virtual private networks, according to a WeChat post Wednesday by Qu Weiguo, an English-language professor at Fudan University in Shanghai.
The broadcaster said Chinese authorities beat and briefly detained one of its journalists, who was reporting on a protest Sunday.
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