Recording incidents of individuals expressing protest in public ways.
On November 3, a food delivery rider near Lanxi Road in Shanghai was stopped by traffic police while delivering food. Suspected of jumping into a river due to a fine, a large number of police, firefighters, and rescue personnel arrived at the scene to forcibly pull him ashore.
Recently, a Chinese veteran has been live-streaming for a long time while holding placards on social media, with slogans demanding that society attach importance to missing persons, opposing organ trafficking, calling for a crackdown on telecom fraud, and refusing blood draws for matching.
On the night of October 31, during Halloween in Hangzhou, internet celebrity Feng Ge appeared at Hubin Yintai IN77 and was subsequently taken away by police.
On Halloween, October 31, a netizen at a certain location displayed a slogan: 'I want a two-day weekend, basic dignity, and true peace.'
On October 25, a man wearing a T-shirt printed with cat and dog patterns took part in the Tianjin Marathon, holding both hands up in a gesture resembling a "W" to voice support for "Wangwang", the stray dog abused and killed in Jieyang, Guangdong, and after the race he posted photos of his participation.
On October 23, it was circulating online that due to the continuous decline of the stock market, an investor purchased a funeral wreath online, with the delivery address set to the Shanghai Financial Exchange Plaza and a note saying to hang it on the neck of the bronze bull at the exchange's entrance; the order has not been paid for yet because security at the entrance has been tightened.
An elderly man in Henan posted a video online to protest gas prices being too high to afford, shouting slogans such as "Down with Japanese imperialism" and "Long live the Chinese Communist Party."
On October 17, in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, a rights defender in the "Fan'er Community case" scattered hundreds of flyers detailing grievances inside a shopping mall and was subsequently taken away by police.
On October 17, an elderly man in Henan, unable to afford cooking gas because prices were too high, beat gongs and drums in his courtyard with a gas cylinder on his head, shouting slogans to call for a nationwide uniform reduction in gas prices. The related video drew netizens' attention.
On October 13, a netizen in Hebei who claimed to work at a private enterprise with a meager income too low to afford social insurance posted a video wearing a red plastic bag, publicly calling on Li Zhong, Vice Minister of Human Resources and Social Security, accusing company bosses of having money but never paying social insurance for their employees, and urging leaders to investigate bosses who do not pay social insurance.
On October 9, on Huaihe Road Pedestrian Street in Hefei, Anhui, a man held up a sign in protest, bearing slogans including "Down with the unscrupulous foreign media Dongchedi," and was photographed by netizens.
On October 8, a woman claiming to be from Yanta District, Xi'an, Shaanxi, who says she was illegally detained twice, climbed over the protective fence along the Yongding River channel in Beijing and attempted to jump into the river, saying "They just want me dead now." A person filming at the scene repeatedly tried to dissuade her.
A Douyin user in Rizhao, Shandong posted a video showing himself driving a tractor bearing the slogan "Wei Guang Zheng" through the streets, and said he had been suppressed in the past for rights defense.
On October 2, a Douyin user in Rizhao, Shandong posted a video of driving a tractor bearing the slogans "Long Live the Communist Party" and "Long Live the Peasants" through the streets, accompanied by audio praising the Chinese Communist Party. The user's homepage shows that he had previously been administratively detained on charges of picking quarrels and provoking trouble, and he claims that his rights defense is ongoing.
At noon on October 1, National Day of Mourning, a male petitioner climbed onto the roof of a high-speed train at Liuzhou Station in Guangxi to protest and was struck by high-voltage electricity, his body burned black.