Trending rumor: Xi Jinping under house arrest

DT·24 September 2022, 10:07 pm·1 min read

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Trending rumor: Xi Jinping under house arrest — Chinese President Xi Jinping. Photo by Sergei BOBYLYOV / SPUTNIK / AFP

#PLA military vehicles heading to #Beijing on Sep 22. Starting from Huanlai County near Beijing & ending in Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province, entire procession as long as 80 KM. Meanwhile, rumor has it that #XiJinping was under arrest after #CCP seniors removed him as head of PLA pic.twitter.com/hODcknQMhE
— Jennifer Zeng 曾錚 (@jenniferatntd) September 23, 2022

Social media is abuzz with unverified news that Chinese President Xi Jinping on 24 September is "under house arrest by the People's Liberation Army."

The rumor started with a Twitter post newsroompost.com reported:

"A Chinese human rights activist Jennifer Zeng posted a video on her Twitter handle claiming that the PLA is moving to take over Beijing:

"'#PLA military vehicles heading to #Beijing on Sep 22. Starting from Huanlai County near Beijing & ending in Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province, entire procession as long as 80 KM. Meanwhile, rumor has it that #XiJinping was under arrest after #CCP seniors removed him as head of PLA,' she wrote in the caption.