They went home as doctors.

But, Bean, a textile merchant, in his 40s, wasn't sick and the men outside his apartment in Wuhan weren't doctors. They were police officers who were following orders from the Chinese Communist Party.

Fang's crime was because he had posted a video that he had filmed 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 some 200,000 times before it was hidden from the internet.

The Daily Mail further writes that the officers violently took the businessman from his apartment, not asking him if he wanted to go with them.

They questioned him violently, and gave him a direct order, to stop spreading rumors about the virus, predicting that he would be confiscated from his computer. In the early hours of the morning, Bean was released.

A week later, on February 9, Fang posted another video, this time another video call: Citizens Fight!

Police returned to his home, and nothing has been known for more than two months. According to local residents, Fang was an outstanding man, one of the 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, along with lawyer Chen Qiushi and former state television reporter Li Zehua, are being tortured and forced to write confessions in detention centres, where, in more normal periods, Chinese police hide the terror of lawyers and activists seen as enemies of the state. Now an investigation has revealed a campaign organised by the Chinese regime to ban 1.4 billion citizens in the country from discussing the terrible explosion of COVID-19.

More than 5,100 people were arrested for distributing information in the first weeks of the explosion. Dizidents are being labeled sick, so the government can put them in medical quarantine and have no contact with outside. Hundreds of other citizens have been arrested and fined for sending messages showing that there are long lines in hospitals, masks shortages and the death of relatives.

The unprecedented clash began with complaints written by Dr Lee Wenliang, 34, and seven other doctors, who allegedly sent messages to other doctors, warning them of the outbreak of a sickness similar to SARS 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.

His death caused grief and anger throughout China. The country's communist leaders were afraid that a nationwide protest could be staged with the hashtag #Wewantfreedomofpech and started the relentless tightening of control by the Chinese regime.

A day before Dr Li's death, attorney Chen Qiushi, whose videos published chaotic scenes in Wuhan hospitals with victims of coronavirus lying in the corridors and were seen by more than 400,000 people, disappeared.

The next day his family was reported to be in quarantine.

Before he disappeared, Chen realized that the police were shutting him down and told his followers: 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?

A few days later he disappeared.

Three weeks later, Li Zehua, 25, a reporter on Chinese state television who went to report on the death toll in Wwan, directly broadcast his arrest when civilian - dressed policemen went into his home.

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 illegal detention, described by officials as residential surveillance at a certain location.

Frances Eve, deputy director of research at Hong Kong-based Human Rights Overseers, said: All those who have disappeared are being tortured and at great risk.

“The secret detention centres usually carry designers like human rights activists and lawyers,” said Eve,- “in most cases we've followed, people entering have been tortured. ”

China has denied knowing the disappearance of these people. Chinese Ambassador to the US, Cui Tiankai, has been asked twice in television interviews about Chen Qiushi's fate, and has replied that he has no idea who he is and that he doesn't know him at all. /Daily Mail