Brave Chinese Girl Confronts Riot Cops, Refuses To Stop Filming During A4 Protest

A Chinese girl has been pictured defiantly standing up to baton-wielding police as people protest against the zero-Covid strategy and repression.

She has now been dubbed the “tank lady” in reference to the iconic images of the Chinese man who stood in front of a line of tanks in Tiananmen Square holding bags in each hand during the 1989 uprising in Beijing that was brutally repressed.

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More than 30 years later, demonstrators have been pouring onto the streets in cities including Shanghai and Beijing, criticising the zero Covid policy, confronting police – and even calling for leader Xi Jinping to step down.

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Girl stands defiantly in front of riot cops

And one girl was seen standing bravely in front of police, filming with her camera before they pushed her and then they appeared to carry her away.

It is unclear what happened later as the cameraman was forced to stop recording by Chinese law enforcement.

The footage was shared by journalist Yashar Ali who tweeted: “Watch this brave woman stand strong and continue to film the abuses of Chinese government security forces.” Yashar Ali, who lauded the woman for her bravery,

is a Huffington Post contributor.
“She then gets beaten herself! While we support the people of Iran, we must also support the brave people of China as they take on the totalitarian CCP!”

A4 revolution & why

Many protesters have been waving blank sheets of paper as they seek changes to the censorship and the demonstrations are now being called the “white paper revolution”.

The widespread protests are unprecedented since the army crushed the 1989 student-led pro-democracy movement centred on Beijing’s Tiananmen Square.

The protests were triggered by a deadly fire last Thursday in Urumqi, the capital of the far western region of Xinjiang.

The blaze killed at least 10 people and injured nine in an apartment building – leading to public fury after videos of the incident showed that lockdown measures had delayed firefighters from reaching the victims.

The city had been under lockdown for more than 100 days, with residents unable to leave the region and many forced to stay home. Videos showed Urumqi residents marching to a government building and chanting for the end of the lockdown on Friday.

The following morning, the local government said it would lift the lockdown in stages – but did not provide a clear time frame or address the protests. That failed to quell public anger and the protests rapidly spread beyond Xinjiang, with residents in cities and universities across China also taking to the streets. 

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