Video Shows Beijing College Students Protesting Covid Curbs
- Students appear angry at fence confining them to dorm area
- China’s capital city has been stepping up pandemic measures
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Video shared on social media appears to show students at one of China’s top universities protesting pandemic restrictions in the country’s capital, a sign of mounting frustration with President Xi Jinping’s zero-tolerance Covid-19 policy.
A video posted on Twitter by John Alekna, an assistant professor at Peking University according to his Twitter and LinkedIn bios, purportedly showed a crowd of students gathered in a dormitory compound shouting “Same accommodation! Same rights!”