Hundreds of students at two Beijing universities staged protests against the Chinese coronavirus quarantine on Monday and Tuesday this week, a day before Beijing’s top medic was sacked for “serious disciplinary violations and the law” on Wednesday.
“Hundreds of students from the China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL) and Beijing Normal University (Beishida) gathered to express their dissatisfaction with the current restrictions on their movement,” Radio Free Asia (RFA) said on May 25.
“This rally was followed by a similar rally in Beyside on Tuesday. [May 24]Said RFA, a publisher funded by the US government.
RFA cited a post on a social networking site on China’s Twitter-like platform Weibo: “About 300 people [at the Beishida protest] Tuesday night. ”
Beijing health authorities have quarantined several areas in the metropolitan area since April 28 as part of ongoing efforts to curb China’s latest coronavirus outbreak. Communist Party officials have recently sealed off Beijing’s Haidian District, which includes the CUPL and Beishida universities. Movement restrictions include the suspension of in-person classes at two universities from May 23, according to the RFA.
On May 25, the publisher said, citing an unknown source, “most students [at CUPL and Beishida universities] Angry at the decision to end in-person classes, but still need students on campus to attend online classes. ”
News that college students in Haidian County were protesting local quarantine orders this week preceded him. South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported on May 26 that Chinese Communist Party officials had recently dismissed Yu Lumin, the director of Beijing Municipal Health Commission.
Referring to the Communist Party’s report of 25 May Beijing newspaper, SCMP It reported that Yu was “removed from his position on the Health Commission and as Vice Chairman of the Beijing Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, the highest political advisory body.”
Health workers in protective gear stand outside the tent as they await a nucleic acid test to identify COVID-19 on local workers at a temporary testing site in Haidian District in Beijing, China, April 26, 2022. (Kevin Fryer/Getty Images)
The newspaper noted that Yoo’s dismissal was “clearly unrelated to the ongoing Covid-19.” [Chinese coronavirus] The Central Committee of Discipline Inspection, the Communist Party’s main body against corruption since the pandemic, announced last month that it was under investigation.
Beijing has accused Yu of criminal charges, including “serious violations of discipline and law”, a euphemism often used by the Chinese Communist Party for “corruption or political errors”. SCMP.
The Chinese public, and possibly some anonymous Communist Party officials, have expressed increasing opposition to Beijing’s “zero tolerance” policy towards the Chinese coronavirus in recent weeks. Health officials are closing the entire enclave and county due to the relatively low number of confirmed local cases in line with policy, as well as the mandatory quarantine of residents in state-run isolation facilities within a few weeks.
Peking University students in Beijing staged a protest against their school’s “zero tolerance” policy on May 15 after authorities erected metal fences outside their dorms without notice and effectively kept them inside.
Source: Breitbart
