Rare Protest Banners Against China's Xi Jinping Removed From Beijing

Beijing authorities removed rare banners of political protest from an overpass in the Chinese capital, according to images circulated widely on social media on Thursday, just days before the start of...

Beijing authorities have removed rare banners of political protest from a flyover in the Chinese capital, according to images widely circulated on social media on Thursday, just days before a twice-in-decade Communist Party congress begins.

The banners carried several slogans,

Including a call to oust President Xi Jinping and end COVID-politics

The strict 19, according to several photos and videos circulated on Twitter, is banned in China.

Smoke can be seen rising from the road above where signs were hung in Haidian District, northwest of Beijing, according to the photos.

The incident comes at a very sensitive time in the Chinese capital, with authorities on high alert in the run-up to the 20th Congress of the ruling Communist Party, when Xi is expected to secure a third term as president.

One said, "We don't want COVID tests, we want to eat; we don't want lockdowns, we want to be free."

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COVID policy, which has led to frequent lockdowns and caused severe economic damage, has sparked widespread frustration in Chinese cities.

Beijing police did not immediately respond to a request for comment sent to the official WeChat account.

Search terms related to images and subject yielded no results on the heavily censored internet in China,

Although multiple indirect references can be found.

“There was a brave person in Beijing today,” one user wrote, adding several WordPress thumbs-ups of support.

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Hu Xijin, former editor of the Chinese nationalist newspaper Global Times and prominent commentator,

He wrote on Twitter on Thursday: "China is currently stable, especially its capital, Beijing... In Beijing there is no public discontent with epidemic control as in some other remote places in China."

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