{"id":1753222,"date":"2022-11-28T07:45:11","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T12:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1753222"},"modified":"2022-11-28T07:48:14","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T12:48:14","slug":"bbc-reporter-dragged-to-ground-and-arrested-while-covering-massive-anti-lockdown-protests-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bbc-reporter-dragged-to-ground-and-arrested-while-covering-massive-anti-lockdown-protests-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Reporter Dragged to Ground and Arrested While Covering Massive Anti-Lockdown Protests in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbbc-reporter-dragged-to-ground-and-arrested-while-covering-massive-anti-lockdown-protests-in-china%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1753222&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/original_bbc_shanghai.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>                Demonstrations by Chinese citizens in <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/breaking-brave-people-of-china-protest-tyrannical-covid-lockdowns-take-down-the-ccp-take-down-xi-jinping\">Shanghai<\/a> faced a massive police presence, and BBC reporter\u00a0Edward Lawrence was arrested and dragged away by CCP officers.\u00a0In the short video, the journalist can be seen being seized upon by officers and dragged to the ground. Lawrence has been reporting from Shanghai.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n<p><span>&#8220;I\u2019m at the scene of last night\u2019s extraordinary anti <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/majority-of-americans-dying-of-covid-are-vaccinated-study\">Covid<\/a>-zero protest in Shanghai. Many people are gathered here quietly watching. Lots of cops. Two girls laid flowers which were promptly removed by police. One man drove past with middle finger up at police,&#8221; Lawrence reported, &#8220;some small crowds are gathered on the sidewalks quietly watching the scene and the police presence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019ve seen several people with flowers. One girl was holding a blank piece of paper.\u00a0One man has just approached me to say his flowers were confiscated by police. As he tells me this, two cops come over to listen to our conversation.\u00a0The crowd has grown from maybe a few dozen to several hundred. I\u2019ve seen the police arrest three people &#8211; two of whom then fought with police. There\u2019s a silent tension until one person shouts, and then the crowd chants and claps in support.\u00a0I\u2019m told by friends that police have blocked the roads around this area and they\u2019re not letting people through.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>The BBC released a statement, saying &#8220;The BBC is extremely concerned about the treatement of our journalist Ed Lawrence, who was arrested and handcuffed while covering the protests in Shanghai. He was held for several hours before being released. During his arrest, he was beaten and kicked by the police. This happened while he was working as an accredited journalist.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is very worrying that one of our journalists was attacked in this way whilst carrying out his duties. We have had no official explanation of apology from the Chinese authorities, beyond a claim by the officials who later released him that they had arrested him for his down good in case he caught <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/the-atlantic-suggests-covid-deniers-forgive-and-forget-after-having-been-lied-to-for-three-years\">Covid<\/a> from the crowd. We do not consider this a credible explanation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>Reports say that the arrest happened on the Urumqi Road, and that Lawrence &#8220;was targeted becuz he was filming the protest.&#8221; Protestors stood out in the streets of Shanghai demanding their freedom and holding up white papers to protest censorship, CNN reported.<\/p>\n<p>As protestors demanded that CCP <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/watch-wef-head-says-communist-china-is-a-role-model-for-many-countries\">President Xi Jinping <\/a>step down, a CNN reporter &#8220;asks Police what they are gonna do to the protesters and a Police officer tells her to &#8216;f.ck off.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;<span>The White Paper Revolution is an unprecedented uprising against the draconian covid lockdowns of the CCP. The people China join freedom fighters the world over who have fought against tyrannical covid policies and the monsters who pushed them,&#8221; Jack Posobiec said.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>Violence broke out between protestors and officers while demonstrators shouted\u00a0&#8220;take down the CCP!&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>There have reportedly been numerous arrests by officers.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>Chinese citizens have been subjected to rolling, draconian lockdown policies. Officials have welded shut the doors on apartment buildings to prevent people from leaving quarantine, have separated families, have taken children from families, all in an effort to stop the spread of Covid.<\/p>\n<p>This is part of China&#8217;s &#8220;zero Covid&#8221; policy, where those who contract the disease are separated from those who test negative for it. Videos have emerged on Twitter of children being forced to show Covid papers to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0fire Thursday at an apartment building in the\u00a0Xinjiang province claimed the lives of at lease a dozen citizens who burned alive after being locked into their homes. This was a spark for these protests.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;The protests in Shanghai are taking place right down the street from the US Consulate Not a single official or member of the Biden Admin has said a word about them,&#8221; Posobiec said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>This is a developing story and will be updated.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Demonstrations by Chinese citizens in Shanghai faced a massive police presence, and BBC reporter\u00a0Edward Lawrence was arrested and dragged away by CCP officers.\u00a0In the short video, the journalist can<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1753225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1753222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1753222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1753225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1753222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1753222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1753222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}