Space for dissent has narrowed as China has grown more authoritarian under President Xi Jinping, and the anger over COVID-19 restrictions has created headaches for authorities who have urged the public to make sacrifices for the greater good.
Sun said his university had moved classes online and banned students from leaving campus, receiving packages or getting outside food deliveries.
He dismissed the curbs as unnecessary given what he said was the low death rates associated with the Omicron variant.
“The trouble brought by the virus can’t be compared with the disruption from some of the anti-COVID measures taken by our school,” Sun told Reuters by telephone.
He said his social media accounts had been blocked.
“VENTING OFF”
Arrests and detentions for COVID-19-related rule-breaking surged in March, according to the results of a search on the Weibo social media platform for police statements, posts by state agencies and state media reports from around China.
The search found 59 confirmed police cases and 26 arrests for COVID rule-breaking in January, and fewer in February. But in March, more than 600 police cases and 150 confirmed arrests were reported on Weibo, the review by Reuters found.
It is likely that the figures represent only a fraction of actual cases as not every incident makes it to social media or is reported by the authorities.
Public security departments also announced a surge in crackdowns on COVID-19 rule violations in March, with cities and counties publishing 80 notices on their Weibo accounts, compared with seven in January and 10 in February.
Most infractions involve citizens trying to skirt rules such as reporting travels on a health app, falsifying COVID test results, and sneaking out of locked-down neighbourhoods.
Assaults on health workers also surged.
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