Hundreds in Vancouver rally in sympathy with China COVID protests

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VANCOUVER - Hundreds of people have rallied in Vancouver in sympathy with rare protests that are sweeping across China in response to the country's hardline zero-COVID lockdown policies.

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VANCOUVER – Hundreds of people have rallied in Vancouver in sympathy with rare protests that are sweeping across China in response to the country’s hardline zero-COVID lockdown policies.

The protesters outside the Vancouver Art Gallery Sunday night also mourned the deaths of at least 10 people in an apartment fire in the Xinjiang region that critics blame on the anti-virus controls that have restricted millions of people to their homes in China.

Protesters lit candles and held up blank sheets of paper, in what has become a Chinese symbol of dissent.

People light candles in front of the Vancouver Art Gallery on Sunday, Nov. 27, 2022, at a rally in sympathy with protests that are sweeping across China. The protest also paid tribute to victims of an apartment fire in northwest China that critics blame on the government's hardline COVID lockdown policies. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nono Shen
People light candles in front of the Vancouver Art Gallery on Sunday, Nov. 27, 2022, at a rally in sympathy with protests that are sweeping across China. The protest also paid tribute to victims of an apartment fire in northwest China that critics blame on the government's hardline COVID lockdown policies. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nono Shen

The crowd chanted slogans in English and Mandarin against the Chinese Communist Party and called on President Xi Jinping to step down.

Protests broke out over the weekend in at least 10 Chinese cities, including Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing and Guangzhou, a scale that is highly unusual.

Xi’s government faces mounting anger at its zero-COVID policies that have shut down access to areas throughout China in an attempt to isolate every case at a time when other countries are easing controls.

— by Nono Shen in Vancouver, with files from The Associated Press

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 28, 2022.

This story was produced with the financial assistance of the Meta and Canadian Press News Fellowship.

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