HAMBURG/BEIJING: Dazed and terrified, Yicheng Huang narrowly managed to escape being detained by police in Shanghai while attending historic protests calling for an end to China's COVID-19 curbs that spread ac
calling for an end to China's COVID-19 curbs that spread across numerous cities last November.
He is one of the first to publicly reveal his identity, after the vast majority of protesters fell silent under threat of official retribution. Immediately following the protests, in which hundreds took to the streets in several cities across the country, police interrogated and detained dozens of participants, according to rights group, lawyers and friends of those individuals.Reuters could not independently verify the total number of protesters who were detained by police or have been charged and remain in custody.
China's Public Security Bureau did not respond to a faxed request for comment. The public security bureaus of Beijing and Shanghai could not be reached for comment. "A group of police officers rushed forward and pinned me to the ground, punching and kicking me. Then they grabbed me upside down and dragged me along the ground while upside down. My chin was bleeding profusely. I lost my glasses and shoes," he told Reuters.
"Over the past ten years, the space for us to exist - and the space for civil society in China - has continued to shrink."
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