Chinese authorities seek out protesters to explain themselves "Holding a blank sheet of paper is a way to reduce the political and legal risk: when being arrested or interrogated, people [can ...

In Russia earlier this year, protesters opposing the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine were arrested for holding up blank sheets of paper amid a government crackdown on dissent. Those arrests only ...

Images and videos circulated online showed students at universities in cities including Nanjing and Beijing holding up blank sheets of paper in silent protest, a tactic used in part to evade ...

Protests in China are rare, so the current protests against the Xi government’s zero-COVID-19 policy are all the more conspicuous globally. Public discontent snowballed into public dissent after ...

Videos and photos circulated online show students across China holding up blank sheets of paper in silent protest — an effort to evade the country’s draconian censorship laws. The tactic is ...

Images and videos circulated online showed students at universities in cities including Nanjing and Beijing holding up blank sheets of paper in silent protest, a tactic used in part to evade ...

During various demonstrations across the country, people were seen holding a blank sheet of paper. Some say it’s a way to avoid censorship. In a viral video said to be from November 26 ...

Anti-government demonstrators in Hong Kong also used blank paper in 2020 ... with the Beatles crossing the street holding the Urumqi road sign. “That’s the censorship mechanisms’ own ...