On a chilly Saturday in Toronto, a group of Chinese students demonstrated at Mel Lastman Square, hoping to send their voices of support to dissidents in China, who have been protesting against Beijing’s draconian COVID-19 policies and calling for an end to the authoritarian Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Lin Litong, a co-organizer of the Nov. 19 protest and the representative of Chinese student organization Assembly of Citizens, said they were showing solidarity and called for support of a dissident in Haidian District, Beijing.
A group of Chinese students and dissidents hold a demonstration to show support for protesters in China against Beijing’s zero-COVID policies and call for an end to the Chinese Communist Party, in Toronto on Nov. 19, 2022. (Michelle Hu/The Epoch Times)
A protester in Toronto holds a sign reading “Either we defeat tyranny, or tyranny conquers us” in Toronto on Nov. 19, 2022. A group made up of Chinese students and dissidents protesting Beijing’s zero-COVID policies held a rally calling for an end to the Chinese communist regime. (Michelle Hu/The Epoch Times)
On Oct. 13, Lifa Peng, alias Zaizhou Peng, raised a banner at the Sitong Bridge in Beijing and burned tires to protest against Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s zero-COVID policy, which has seen massive and sometimes brutal lockdowns and nucleic acid testing campaigns across the country….