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By Iris Zhao

China COVID-19 policy protesters reveal why they took to the streets and what they saw

Protests have broken out across China in what some are calling the greatest display of civil disobedience since the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989.

On the weekend, crowds of hundreds of people took to the streets of cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Chengdu, some bearing blank sheets of paper to highlight government censorship. 

The protests were sparked by the deaths of 10 people in an apartment building fire in Urumqi, the capital city of Xinjiang province, that have been blamed on the government's strict COVID-19 policies. 

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