Investigative Reports

Again a protest and again a suppression in China

Chinese customers opened accounts at six rural banks in Henan and neighboring Anhui province that offered higher interest rates in large numbers. They later found they could not withdraw their funds after media reports that the head of the banks’ parent company was on the run and wanted for financial crimes. There were several protests in the region due to this, especially in the Henan province.

On the 2nd of September, 2022, protests erupted again in China when the Zhejiang depositors realized that their life savings are stolen by the bank. When they tried to protest at the bank, SWAT police smashed them down, according to various locals.

The people were forcefully dispersed, and the protest was crushed without any justice when they were sitting outside the Nanjing Bank in protest.

Soon after this, there was another city, another protest, and another crackdown in China. It was the turn of Wuhan where people protested against the misery they were facing due to the never-ending lockdowns and strict restrictions on their movement. Thousands of people gathered and tried to raise their voices in the night. The result was more or less the same as in Zhejiang. The police forces came and brutally smashed people to disperse them

There were not the first instances of suppression of protest in China. There have been over 450 protests this year that we have covered in our detailed investigative report.

Source:

https://twitter.com/Byron_Wan

https://twitter.com/songpinganq/status/1566107568136912897

https://twitter.com/Inty/status/1565550544067760128

Editor

Recent Posts

Myanmar’s Kachin insurgents take control of their border with China

Read RFA coverage of this topic in Burmese. The most powerful insurgent group in northern…

4 hours ago

Tibetan environmentalist released after serving nearly 15 years in prison

Read original story in TibetanA prominent Tibetan art collector and environmental activist who was sentenced…

16 hours ago

Briton, 2 Australians in intensive care after suspected alcohol poisoning in Laos

BANGKOK – One British and two Australian tourists are seriously ill after drinking alcohol suspected…

1 day ago

Five years on, PolyU protesters say they were defending freedoms

Five years after riot police besieged Hong Kong’s Polytechnic University and trapped protesters fought back…

2 days ago

Myanmar military steps up airstrikes in Shan state, Mandalay; dozens of casualties

Myanmar military airstrikes in northern Shan state and Mandalay region have killed about 30 civilians…

2 days ago

Leader of rebel army detained in China’s Yunnan province

The leader of an ethnic rebel army was being held under house arrest in China’s…

3 days ago

This website uses cookies.