China’s protests had already made global headlines, but their security services poured fresh petrol on the flames yesterday. BBC reporter Ed Lawrence got gang-tackled by police while covering the protests erupting in Shanghai over Xi Jinping’s zero-COVID policies and the deaths of a dozen or more people in a fire that erupted in a locked-down apartment building. The BBC now reports, and other media organizations have amplified, that Lawrence got beaten and kicked repeatedly while in custody over his reporting on the growing unrest against Xi:Read More
BBC: Beijing’s goons beat our accredited journalist while covering Shanghai protests
