Trending in China: Police Scorned Online for Punishing Men Attending Funeral During Lockdown

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Social media users have slammed the police for punishing four men in East China for allegedly violating disease control measures to attend a relative’s funeral, saying that the handling of the incident was “unreasonable and callous.”

As of Thursday afternoon, a related hashtag #Local authorities respond to an incident in which four men were punished for violating control measures to attend a funeral #官方回应违反防疫规定参加葬礼被罚 has been viewed over 70 million times, receiving over 25,000 comments on China’s Twitter-like platform Weibo.