China’s zero-Covid protesters joined a vigil in Beijing. Then their lives were turned upside down

CNN — When one by one, the friends of a young woman living in Beijing began disappearing - detained by the police after attending a vigil together weeks earlier - she felt sure that her time was nearing. "As I record this video, four of my friends have already been taken away," the woman, age 26, said, speaking clearly into the camera in a video recording from late December obtained by CNN. "I entrusted some friends of mine with making this video public after my disappearance. In other words, when you see this video, I have been taken away by…