{"id":50615,"date":"2022-11-28T10:50:09","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T01:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2022\/nov\/28\/china-video-shows-bbc-journalists-arrest-during-covid-protest-video"},"modified":"2022-11-28T10:50:09","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T01:50:09","slug":"china-video-shows-bbc-journalists-arrest-during-covid-protest-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50615","title":{"rendered":"China: Video shows BBC journalist&#8217;s arrest during Covid protest \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Video shared on social media shows the moment BBC journalist Edward Lawrence was arrested by Chinese authorities while covering an anti-lockdown protest in Shanghai. Lawrence was dragged away by police shouting &#8220;Call the Consulate, now.&#8221; Protests over Covid restrictions have spread to several cities across China and were triggered by a deadly fire at a residential high-rise building in the city of Urumqi, in the country&#8217;s western Xinjiang region. Videos of the incident posted on social media led to accusations that lockdowns were a factor in the blaze that killed 10 people<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/28\/clashes-in-shanghai-as-protests-over-zero-covid-policy-grip-china\">Clashes in Shanghai as protests over zero-Covid policy grip China<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/27\/anger-mounts-as-chinas-zero-covid-policy-fails-to-curb-record-rise-in-cases\">Depressed, powerless, angry: why frustration at China\u2019s zero-Covid is spilling over<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/27\/xi-unlikely-to-tolerate-dissent-as-momentous-protests-shake-china\">Xi unlikely to tolerate dissent as momentous protests shake China<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2022\/nov\/28\/china-video-shows-bbc-journalists-arrest-during-covid-protest-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video shared on social media shows the moment BBC journalist Edward Lawrence was arrested by Chinese authorities while covering an anti-lockdown protest in Shanghai. Lawrence was dragged away by police shouting &#8220;Call the Consulate, now.&#8221; Protests over &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-protest"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50616,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50615\/revisions\/50616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}