Photos and videos online showed protest banners on a busy overpass in Beijing on Thursday calling for elections and the ouster of Chinese leader Xi Jinping. Online images showed banners that demanded 'votes not leaders, dignity not lies.'
A police vehicle is parked near a bridge where social media videos earlier appeared to show smoke and protest banners in Beijing on Thursday. China's internet censors moved quickly to scrub social media posts after reports of banners criticizing the Communist leadership being hung from a busy intersection in the capital Beijing.A police vehicle is parked near a bridge where social media videos earlier appeared to show smoke and protest banners in Beijing on Thursday.
Another called on students and workers to go on strike and to depose the"traitorous dictator" Xi, who has centralized power and ruled China with a heavy hand.Public protests over local issues, like land disputes or court rulings, are regular occurrences in China. Political protests are far less common, and it is exceedingly rare to see overt mentions of elections and freedom, or scorn aimed directly at top leaders.
A police officer reached by phone told NPR he was aware of the banner protest but gave no further comment. Bloomberg news said there wasThe demonstration comes at a highly sensitive time in China with heightened security in Beijing, just three days before the start of a twice-a-decade Communist Party congress.Next week, party representatives are expected to hand Xi a third five-year term as party chief.
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