A protester was arrested at a rally against lockdowns in China amid displays of public anger against the authoritarian state.The brave demonstrator held up a yellow bouquet of flowers as he gave an impassioned speech to cheering locals along the Urumqi road in the Xinjiang region on November 27.The man was later detained by cops in high-vis jackets who manhandled him into a police car amid objections from other protesters.The city had been hit by a deadly fire on November 24, with local accounts blaming strict Covid restrictions for slowing down rescue efforts.China is seeing a spate of rare protests from angry locals as it faces yet another outbreak of Covid-19 infections despite the strict and brutal curbs citizens have been enduring since the pandemic began.Dictator Xi Jinping and his authoritarian Communist government have enforced a zero-infections policy since the outbreak of the Covid-19 respiratory illness began spreading rapidly in March 2020.There is growing awareness both within China and in the west of the country's brutal treatment of citizens - including organ harvesting and mass imprisonments.The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) stated that China's treatment of Uyghurs in Xinjiang had lead to the 'United States and several other foreign governments' branding China's actions in Xinjiang as 'genocide'.The United Nations human rights office warned that the actions could 'constitute crimes against humanity'.