2022 Beijing Sitong Bridge protest
The Beijing Sitong Bridge protest was a protest taken place on October 13, 2022, in Haidian, Beijing, China.
| Beijing Sitong Bridge protest | |
|---|---|
| Part of the Chinese democracy movement and the 2022 COVID-19 protests in China | |
Sitong Bridge pictured in 2003 | |
| Date | October 13, 2022 |
| Location | 39.96564°N 116.31517°E |
| Caused by | Opposition to Xi Jinping and the Chinese government's zero-COVID policy |
| Methods | Hanging banners, playing slogans on loudspeakers, burning tires to produce black smoke |
| Resulted in | Protester arrested, banners and loudspeakers removed |
| Lead figures | |
Peng Lifa | |
Location within central Beijing | |
The protest happened three days before the opening of the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). On the morning of October 13, 2022, a protester demonstrated against CCP general secretary Xi Jinping's cult of personality, dictatorship, human rights violations, strengthening of censorship, seeking of leadership for life and implementation of the zero-COVID policy by hanging banners and burning tires on Sitong Bridge (Chinese: 四通桥; pinyin: Sìtōng Qiáo) in Haidian, Beijing.
The protester, Peng Lifa (彭立发; pinyin: Péng Lìfā; b. 1974), has been dubbed Bridge Man or Banner Man in reference to Tank Man.
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