6 hours agoBeijing lied to the world about the number of people infected with COVIDD-19.
Periskopi(6 years ago)
(6 years ago)The scary knock on the door came after noon. Outside were two men in special suits against COVID-19, who told businessman Fang Bin that they had come to get him and take him to medical quarantine. But the textile merchant, a man in the '40s, was not sick and the men outside [...]
Fang's crime was because he had posted a video that he had filmed by people dying of virus in the street and hospitals filled with people asking for help at a time when China insisted that the virus was under control. This video was seen 200,000 times before it left the internet, writes the Daily Mail.
The officers on the threshold of his residence took him to questioning, ordering him to stop spreading rumors about the virus before confiscating his computer.
He was later set free in the early hours of the morning, broadcasting Telegragraphy.
A week later, on February 9th, Fang posted another video, this time presenting a letter bearing a note: The citizens resist. The police returned and he has not been seen or heard for more than two months.
Fang, a normally distinguished man, is one of three voices that disappeared from the Chinese government because he had shown the terrible state of COVID-19.
Their fate is unknown, but human rights groups believe Fang has joined lawyer Chen Qiushi and former state television reporter Li Zehua éhua are being tortured and forced to write confessions in detention centres, where, at more normal times, Chinese police hide the terror of lawyers and activists seen as enemies of the state.
Now an investigation has revealed a cynical and orchestrated campaign by the Chinese regime to prevent 1.4 billion citizens of the country from discussing the terrible explosion of COVID-19 among them.
More than 5,100 people were arrested for exchanging information in the first weeks of the explosion. The dissidents are being labeled sick so the government can place them in medical quarantine.
Hundreds of ordinary citizens are being arrested and fined for messages showing that there are long lines in hospitals, masks shortages, and the death of relatives.
The unprecedented clash began with warnings issued to Dr Li Wenliang, 34, and seven other doctors for sending messages to other doctors on December 30th warning them of the outbreak of a SARS-like disease at Wuhan Central Hospital and advising them to wear protective clothing.
Dr Li was forced to sign a police document saying he had seriously violated social order and violated the law before returning to work at the Wuhan Central Hospital, where he died of COVID-19, on February 7th, causing grief and anger across China. The country's communist leaders were shocked by a nationwide protest, which saw the hashtag #Wewantfreedomofpech. But they had already entered into a relentless tighten of control by the Chinese regime.
A day before Dr Li's death, attorney Chen Qiushi whose videos were chaotic scenes in Wuhan hospitals with victims of coronavirus lying in the corridors were shared with an audience of more than 400,000 YouTube views and 250,000 Twitter views were lost. He told his family the next day that he was being kept in medical quarantine in an undiscovered area.
Before his disappearance, Chen realized that the police were shutting him down and he told his followers in a fantastic way: As long as I'm alive, I'll talk about what I've seen and what I've heard. I'm not afraid of death. Why should I be afraid of you, the Communist Party? And he disappeared a few days later.
Three weeks later, Li Zehua, 25 newsmen on Chinese state television who went to report on the death to the death toll in Wuhan directly broadcast his arrest when police in simple clothes arrived at his apartment. Lee did a video to show the audience that he was healthy and good before being taken by the police.
Earlier that day Li told viewers like him he was attended by police after visiting the Wuhan Virology Institute, where it was speculated that the explosion might have started by a laboratory leak.
“I'm sure they want to keep me in isolation”, he said in a video that seemed to be in panic as he left the institute by car. Please help me.
The Chinese government has been silent about the fate of these people, but all three are believed to be located in secret detention centres a bad form of extratrial detention, described by officials as residential surveillance in a certain country.
Frances Eve, deputy director of research at Hong Kong-based Human Rights Overseers, said: All those who have disappeared are in grave danger of torture. They are likely to try to force them to confess that their activities were criminal or harmful to society.
Then, as we have seen in previous cases, people who have disappeared will be taken out and forced to confess on Chinese state television”.
Secret detention centres usually hold dissidents such as human rights activists and lawyers, Eve said. In most cases we've followed, the people who enter have been tortured. You don't have access to your lawyer, your family or someone outside police”.
China has denied the knowledge of the disappearance of these people. Chinese Ambassador to the US, Cui Tiankai, has been asked twice in television interviews about the fate of Chen Qiushi, I have not heard of this person... I didn't know him back then, and I don't know him now”
