Taipei | Unprecedented protests against COVID-19 restrictions broke out at universities across China at the weekend, as students commemorated the deaths of 10 people in Xinjiang believed to have been linked to a draconian lockdown in the region.
The scenes of unrest came a day after hundreds took to the streets of Xinjiang’s capital Urumqi to demonstrate after the escape and rescue of residents from an apartment fire in the city was rumoured to have been hampered by anti-COVID-19 measures. Ten died in the blaze.
