Shanghai Halloween: Account Says Police Took Two Women Away

Two women were taken away by police in Shanghai’s Jing’an Temple area on the evening of October 31, according to the Chinese-language X account Li Laoshi Is Not Your Teacher. In a separate post about Shanghai Halloween policing, the same account said people surrounded a police vehicle and called for a girl’s release.

What the account reported

The first post attributed the police action to the two women’s clothing, describing their outfits as unusual. That explanation came from the account, not from a police statement. The available text does not establish what the women were wearing or the grounds on which officers acted.

The other post said people in the Jing’an Temple area surrounded a police vehicle and collectively demanded the release of a girl it described as having been taken by police because of Halloween. It did not explicitly identify her as one of the two women mentioned in the first post. The two accounts therefore do not establish whether the crowd’s demand concerned one or both women, or someone else.

The women’s status remains unclear

Both posts came from the same account; they are not independent corroboration. The reported location, timing, police actions and crowd response have not been independently verified, and accompanying imagery has not been assessed for this report.

No police explanation, legal basis for the reported action or subsequent outcome was available in the material reviewed. It remains unclear whether the women were formally detained or later released. Being taken away by police, as described in the post, does not by itself establish an arrest or a criminal charge.