Growing defiance of Covid curbs in China brings wave of arrests

Sun Jian, a 37-year-old master’s degree student in the Chinese city of Yantai, for months staged a solo campaign against his university’s Covid-19  prevention measures, including blistering criticism on social media.

The last straw for authorities came on March 27, when Sun walked around his campus carrying a placard that read “lift the lockdown on Ludong”.

Police detained him and on April 1 Ludong University expelled him, according to a letter from the university seen by Reuters.