The Chinese government should respect the fundamental rights of people across China to peacefully protest the government's draconian "zero Covid" restrictions and to call for freedom and human rights, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said. The New York-based rights group said the authorities should immediately release all wrongfully detained protesters and cease online censorship of protest-related information. Over the weekend, thousands of people in Shanghai, China's biggest city and financial centre, began publicly protesting the government's strict Covid-19 measures and denouncing the Chinese Communist Party's authoritarian rule. University students across the country gathered on their campuses to demonstrate, and that...