‘If you fear a blank sheet of paper, you are weak inside.’ — One much-quoted social media post from China. The antecedents of white-paper protests stretch back at least as far as 1924, when ...

Hongkongers raise blank protest signs after China implements new security law. The city's government said last week the popular slogan 'Liberate Hong Kong, ...

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In Hong Kong in 2020, activists also raised blank sheets of white paper in protest to avoid slogans banned under the city's new national security law, which was imposed after massive and sometimes ...

A woman holds a blank sheet of paper as demonstrators protest the deaths caused by an apartment complex fire in Urumqi, Xinjiang, China, at the Langson Library on the campus of the University of ...

In Georgia, organizers of the protest vote campaign encouraged Democratic voters who disagree with the Biden administration's handling of the Israel-Hamas war to submit a blank ballot since there ...

People against monarchy 'have right to protest', police say - after man with a blank sign confronted. The Met says it is "aware" of a video shared online in which a man is told he might "offend ...

Protesters in Russia are being detained just for protesting with blank posters, according to videos being shared on social media. The Kremlin has been cracking down anti-war demonstrations ever ...

Activists gathered outside St Giles’ Cathedral in Edinburgh to protest against multiple arrests that have happened amid ceremonies for King Charles and the late Queen. The group were pictured on the ...

So often one item comes to symbolise an entire protest movement. In China, that item is a humble piece of blank paper. As dusk fell on Shanghai on Sunday evening, some of those who gathered at a ...

As protests against Xi Jinping’s Zero-COVID policy spread across China’s diverse cities and regions over the last week, one symbol remained constant: a blank sheet of paper. On a bridge in ...