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NPR reported on Wednesday that the Chinese Communist Party is quietly, but relentlessly, rounding up and imprisoning people it sees as ringleaders in the huge nationwide protests against dictator Xi Jinping’s coronavirus lockdowns.

A clash between protesting workers and police broke out at a coronavirus test kit factory in Chongqing, China, on Saturday.

Iranian celebrity chef Navab Ebrahimi was arrested without explanation in Tehran on Wednesday and carted off to its notorious Evin Prison, one of the world’s most hideous dungeons.

Protests erupted in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, this week and continue at press time in response to the socialist government arresting the region’s governor, right-wing opposition leader Luis Fernando Camacho.

A group of about fifty women gathered in the Afghan capital of Kabul on Thursday to protest the Taliban banning women from universities. Taliban thugs used force to disperse the protest, beating and arresting some of the women while others fled.

Iran was expelled from the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women (UNCSW) on Wednesday in a vote initiated by the United States.

Chinese state media looked for a bright side to the relaxation of dictator Xi Jinping’s deranged “zero Covid” policies this week by touting the anticipated surge of demand for masks and over-the-counter cold medications.

Just under 50 percent of Americans believe President Joe Biden should be more vocal in supporting the citizen-led protests in China, a survey released Tuesday found.

Chinese dictator Xi Jinping’s arch-enemy Winnie the Pooh has been drawn into the anti-lockdown protests sweeping across China, thanks to a Disney t-shirt that coincidentally shows the banned bear brandishing a sheet of blank paper – which has become the symbol of resistance against the Chinese Communist regime.

Americans overwhelmingly support protests against the Chinese Communist Party’s tyrannical “zero COVID” lockdown policies, a new poll found.

Police in white hazmat suits clashed with anti-lockdown protesters in the Chinese city of Guangzhou on Tuesday and Wednesday, providing evidence the uprising continues despite mounting threats of a brutal crackdown.

The massive anti-lockdown protests sprawling across China are making the Communist regime next door in Vietnam nervous, as news from China is spreading like wildfire across Vietnamese social media.

Despite a brutal crackdown by the Chinese Communist regime, anti-lockdown protests continued in cities across China on Tuesday, including a band of courageous “blank paper” protesters who assembled on a pedestrian bridge in Beijing, inspired by the courageous dissident who hung banners critical of dictator Xi Jinping from a bridge in October.

Sympathy demonstrations were held in Taiwan and Hong Kong on Sunday and Monday to show support for China’s massive anti-lockdown protests, even as the Chinese Communist Party’s crackdown on demonstrations appeared to be suppressing the movement.

Republican leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) blasted President Joe Biden and the “corporate class” for being soft on China and vowed to “reckon” with the ruling Chinese Communist Party.

Protesters thronged the streets of cities across China over the weekend — defying a brutal crackdown from the Communist regime — to demand an end to coronavirus lockdowns and the resignation of dictator Xi Jinping.

Taiwan-based Foxconn spent the past month offering bonuses to employees willing to work at its massive factory in Zhengzhou, China, during a hellish coronavirus lockdown, but on Friday it offered $1400 bonuses to new recruits if they would agree to quit and go home.

Workers at the massive Foxconn plant in China’s city of Zhengzhou, the largest facility in the world for assembling Apple iPhones, spilled out into the streets on Wednesday, clashing with hazmat-suited police and tearing down barricades. 

China’s repressive “zero-Covid” policy – which imposes brutal lockdowns, stays in dirty quarantine camps, police brutality, starvation, and lack of access to health care on citizens to allegedly protect them from Chinese coronavirus infections – has made protests and riots part of a new, post-pandemic new normal in the country.

The Iranian national soccer team defied its theocratic rulers on Monday by refusing to sing the “national anthem” at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.

Over a dozen people were killed across Iran on Tuesday and Wednesday, as the anniversary of the momentous November 2019 protests dovetailed with the massive demonstrations against Iran’s harsh hijab laws and the killing of Mahsa Amini, a young woman accused of violating them.

Brazilian Vice President Hamilton Mourão told the national newspaper O Globo on Wednesday that President Jair Bolsonaro’s prolonged absence from Planalto, the presidential office, was due to a painful skin condition that makes it impossible for him to wear pants.

A viral infographic that claimed the government of Iran has sentenced 15,000 protesters to death was uncritically reposted and signal-boosted by several top left-leaning celebrities on Monday, including actresses Viola Davis and Sophie Turner – and perhaps most disturbingly, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who responded to the disinformation with an official condemnation as the Canadian head of government.

The South Korean Rugby Union on Monday apologized for playing the protest song “Glory to Hong Kong” instead of the Chinese Communist anthem at the men’s finals match in Incheon on Sunday.

A court run by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on Sunday imposed the first death sentence against a member of the nationwide protest movement that took to the streets after the thuggish “morality police” killed a young Kurdish woman named Mahsa Amini for wearing her hijab improperly.

Apple seemingly bowed to Communist China’s “sharp power” economic leverage again on Thursday by restricting the use of its AirDrop file-sharing service on Chinese iPhones.

Riots broke out in Athens as thousands of people protested in response to the soaring inflation rates befalling the country.

Residents of the Chinese city of Linyi, located in the northeastern Shandong province, clashed with police on Tuesday as public backlash against endless coronavirus lockdowns intensified.

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian on Saturday made the first public admission that Iran has been sending combat drones to Russia. Iranian officials have previously denied the shipments, even as international journalists photographed Iranian suicide drones slamming into targets in Ukraine.

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan’s political party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), held nationwide protests on Friday, blocking roads and scuffling with police in some areas.

An unnamed driver rammed his car through a crowd of conservative protesters in Mirassol, Sao Paulo state, Brazil on Wednesday, injuring 17 people including two children under 12.

A coalition of supporters of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro apparently led by commercial truckers has organized roadblocks in 21 of the country’s 26 states in the past 24 hours, protesting the election of socialist convicted felon President-Elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Incumbent Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro counted truckers among his most fervent supporters in Sunday’s presidential election.

The Swedish branch of Amnesty has slammed the authorities after 12 climate extremists were sentenced for blocking an ambulance from travelling down a road.

Thousands of people rallied in Prague on Friday to protest the Czech government’s continued support of sanctions against Russia and call for an early election so that a new government can negotiate with Moscow before the winter energy crunch hits.

Islamic State terrorists on Wednesday claimed responsibility for a gun attack on Shiite Muslim pilgrims at a shrine in the southern city of Shiraz.