Nine coronavirus lockdown enforcers in China are under arrest due to video showing them appearing to attack residents as the country continues to enforce strict coronavirus restrictions.
In the video, taken on November 7, state workers wearing hazmat suits can be seen dragging locals across the pavement before beating them, in Linyi city, south China’s Shandong province. according to ViralPress.
The Lanshan Police Department said nine of the pandemic workers had been arrested for using “excessive force.”
“The public security force will crack down on illegal and criminal acts that threaten citizens’ personal safety and other legitimate rights and interests in accordance with the law, and spare no effort to maintain social harmony and stability,” police said in a statement. statement.
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Lockdown enforcers in China were arrested after they were seen beating civilians.
(Viral Press)
Even as the rest of the world is mostly moving away from coronavirus lockdowns, China has continued to enforce strict zero-tolerance restrictions in many areas of the country.
The tight restrictions have led to occasional clashes between residents and local Communist Party officials, who are threatened with punishment if reported cases in their areas of jurisdiction exceed levels considered acceptable.
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In this photo released by China’s Xinhua News Agency, Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers a speech.
(Huang Jingwen/Xinhua via AP)
Chinese residents have used social media to highlight brutal crackdowns on many occasions, including in September, when viral videos showed civilians being forced to stay indoors even as a 6.8-magnitude earthquake rocked China’s Sichuan province.
On Thursday, the country’s new top governing body on Thursday reaffirmed Beijing’s “dynamic zero” policy against COVID-19, saying that epidemic prevention measures should not be relaxed, according to state media.
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A woman wearing a protective suit stands on a street during the lockdown, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in Shanghai, China, 26 May 2022.
(REUTERS/Aly’s Song)
“We must take more resolute and decisive measures to curb the spread of the epidemic as soon as possible and restore normal production and normal life as soon as possible,” the Politburo Standing Committee said, according to the Xinhua news agency.
Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.
