Police detain two people at Shanghai protest site: AFP

Police officers detain people during a protest against Coivd-19curbs at the site of a candlelight vigil for victims of the Urumqi fire, in Shanghai, China in this screengrab obtained from a video released on Nov 27, 2022. - Reuters

SHANGHAI (AFP): Chinese police detained two people on Monday (Nov 28) at a site in Shanghai where demonstrators gathered over the weekend to protest Covid-19 lockdowns and call for greater political freedoms, an AFP journalist witnessed.

When asked why one of the people was taken away, a policeman told AFP "because he didn't obey our arrangements" and then referred the reporter to police.