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Armed riot police in China paraded four alleged violators of coronavirus restrictions through the streets in an effort to shame them, sparking criticism on social media.
The alleged violators, accused of trafficking illegal migrants in violation of China’s coronavirus lockdowns, were marched through the streets in the Guangxi region’s Jingxi city, according to France 24.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission. Xi is said to be China’s most authoritarian leader in decades.
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Videos of the incident circulated on social media prompting many to criticize China’s practice of shaming lawbreakers.
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“Shame parades are bad practice used in the turbulent period which caused great damage to the country and the people,”one online commenter wrote, according to South China Morning Post.
“What is more terrifying than parading the street is the many comments that support this approach,” another user wrote.
Medical Technologist Erika Alvarado performs a COVID-19 test on a patient who just delivered a baby outside a hospital in Manila, Philippines on Friday, Dec. 24, 2021.
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The local Chinese government defended the public shaming and claimed it was an “on-site disciplinary warning activity” and no “inappropriateness” occurred, the BBC reported.
The public shaming in China’s southern region comes a week after the country announced a massive lockdown in the north as the country prepares to host the Olympics.
China ordered the lockdown of as many as 13 million people in neighborhoods and workplaces in the northern city of Xi’an following a spike in coronavirus cases, setting off panic buying…
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