{"id":1755429,"date":"2022-11-29T12:46:45","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T17:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1755429"},"modified":"2022-11-29T14:04:06","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T19:04:06","slug":"protester-in-shanghai-im-witnessing-history-in-the-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/protester-in-shanghai-im-witnessing-history-in-the-making\/","title":{"rendered":"Protester in Shanghai: &#8220;I\u2019m Witnessing History in the Making&#8221;"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fprotester-in-shanghai-im-witnessing-history-in-the-making%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=1755429&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\/Protester-in-Shanghai-Im-Witnessing-History-in-the-Making.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><strong>Mass protests broke out across Shanghai demanding an end to COVID lockdowns following outrage over an apartment building fire in Urumqi where ten people were killed after being locked inside.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The citizens who died in the fire were at the time under strict zero-COVID lockdown measures.<\/p>\n<p>As The Daily Fetched reported earlier this week, Another 39,791 new cases of the COVID virus were reported, the most significant one-day increase on record, with a record 4,307 in Beijing alone.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfetched.com\/chinas-uprising-unprecedented-civil-unrest-as-protesters-chant-take-down-the-ccp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Epoch Times <\/a>spoke with one of the protesters, who used the pseudonym Zhengyi Dong, who took to the streets on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Dong said she saw some protesters holding blank pieces of paper, some got into scuffles with police, some were beaten, and some were thrown into police buses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was very moved. The people have been suppressed for too long. It was not fear. I felt that my blood was boiling,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>As The Epoch Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/im-witnessing-history-in-the-making-says-protester-in-shanghai_4891272.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Dong said there were at least 100 police at the location, and they had blocked off the road and taken down the road sign.<\/p>\n<p>Videos online show protesters chanting slogans such as \u201cDown with the Chinese Communist Party\u201d and \u201cRemove Xi Jinping from office.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Before Dong left the scene at around 8 pm, she saw at least three protesters arrested. Other protesters were shouting, \u201crelease them, release them,\u201d but to no avail, she said.<\/p>\n<p>There were other reports of protesters being arrested, with some being beaten, with one witness stating that he saw one female protestor being beaten by a dozen police, reported RFI.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the BBC, one of its reporters was arrested when interviewing protesters.<\/p>\n<p>Dong said she used to trust the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and thought China would improve undeet their rule.<\/p>\n<p>But she said the protest scene shocked her, saying, \u201cthe people\u2019s police were actually taking down the road signs and beating the people!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfetched.com\/chinas-uprising-unprecedented-civil-unrest-as-protesters-chant-take-down-the-ccp\/\">CHINA\u2019S UPRISING: Unprecedented Civil Unrest as Protesters Chant \u2018Take Down the CCP\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis cannot solve the problem but exacerbate the issue. We will go to protest again,\u201d Dong said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, online footage showed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfetched.com\/chinas-uprising-unprecedented-civil-unrest-as-protesters-chant-take-down-the-ccp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hundreds<\/a> of demonstrators confronting riot police in Urumqi, where many of the four million residents have been prevented from leaving their homes for as long as 100 days, the Daily Mail reported.<\/p>\n<p>In another video, protesters can be heard chanting \u201ctake down the CCP.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Watch<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Protests in China continue to escalate as demonstrators chant &#8220;Take Down the CCP.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>These people are an amazing beacon of hope for freedom from Chinese communism. Let&#8217;s pray in doesn&#8217;t end in tragedy. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MBhePGgD6l\">pic.twitter.com\/MBhePGgD6l<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ben Kew \ud83d\udc36 (@ben_kew) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ben_kew\/status\/1596822129852715014?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 27, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mass protests broke out across Shanghai demanding an end to COVID lockdowns following outrage over an apartment building fire in Urumqi where ten people were killed after being locked inside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1755432,"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-1755429","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\/1755429","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=1755429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1755432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1755429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1755429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1755429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}