In February it took the chinese businessman Fang Bin his mobile out of his pocket, filmed in a van and put it up on YouTube.
In the van, who stood on the street in the chinese city of Wuhan, there was piles of it, which by all accounts was the body bags with dead people in.
Eight days later came another video up at Fang Bins social media.
Here he looked into the camera and said: “All persons making the rebellion – give the power from the state back to the people.”
And since no one heard a single sound from the businessman.
Neither the family, friends, colleagues or others. Disappeared out in the blue air.
The further tale of Fang Bin, we return to, and he is not the only one of the kind from the chinese Wuhan, where coronavirussen broke out from.
And it is precisely in Wuhan, as B. T. put the focus on these easter day.
how did the chinese authorities to close the mouth of doctors and activists? And why?
Well, back to Fang Bin.
With his phone in hand, filming as he is overcrowded hospitals with panicked nurses and ligfyldte kassevogne in Wuhan, as you can see here, until he suddenly disappeared.
a Short time after could the chinese authorities confirm that he was in their custody, but hvorhenne, why and how long?
they could not tell, and since Fang Bin not given sound.
But he was not the only one who in the beginning of the epidemic tried to make his fellow citizens aware of how serious the situation actually was.
And he was, unfortunately, not the only one who quickly got the chance to experience how the chinese state manages to censor its citizens.
Take, for example, Chen Qiushi.
He was a relatively known borgerjournalist in China, who had covered the demonstrations in Hong kong in 2019, and when he at the end of January heard rumors that the chinese authorities scaled back a ‘serious situation’ in Wuhan, packed his trunk.
When he arrived at the Wuhans train station, he took his camera up, turned it against himself and said:
“I will use my camera to document what actually happens. I promise that I will not hide the truth.”
In the coming weeks put Chen Quishi more videos up to its several hundreds of thousands of followers.
He shot the videos from the funerals, clinics and hospitals, where sick chinese flocked to get help.
One of his videos showed even a panic-stricken woman who was trying to get in contact with his family via cell phone, while she leaned against a dead man in a wheelchair.
the reporter’s horrifying videos were shared with lightning speed, and he also knew well, that there were people with stars on their shoulders, who looked with.
As when he, for example, to the BBC’s John Sudworth said:
“Censorship is very violent, and people’s accounts being closed down if they share my stuff.”
Yet Chen Qiushi probably not imagined that the chinese authorities would go so violently to the approach, which they ended up doing.
The 7. February was put a new video up on the journalist’s Twitter profile, but this time it was not he himself, who was neither in front of or behind the camera.
No, on the video featured Chen Quishis mother, and she had the worst possible message to the journalist’s many followers.
Her son had disappeared.
And as is the case with Fang Bin, nobody has heard from Chen Quishi ago.
on Monday, was his Twitter profile updated with a cry for help, written by his friend.
‘No one knows where Chen Quishi is now. He is most likely kept under surveillance in his home. We have not heard from Chen Quishi in 58 days, after he covered the coronavirussen in Wuhan. Please save him!’ it says in the advertisement.
Just as rough went not to the doctor Li Wenliang, who – at least according to the chinese authorities – died after being infected with the coronavirussen.
But in his case, the joint authorities are also after a number of lægekollegaer had written that there was a ‘new virus’ in circulation.
‘After I had sent the message, police found me and got me to sign an official letter of criticism,’ have Li Wenliang written in a post on the Weibo social media that is popular in China.
In the letter, it appears that the doctor has come up with “untrue comments” and that he “should reflect on his own behaviour”.
In Wuhan managed to – again according to the chinese authorities – to stop the infection before, for example, Italy, Spain and the UNITED states, but the citizens have not forgotten neither Fang Bin, Chen Quishi or Li Wenliang.
For, though the one in China are accustomed to, that the state greatly trying to censor people, there have been both rallies and countless campaigns on chinese social media, which take strong distance from the treatment of the businessman, the journalist and the doctor, who simply tried to make people aware of the seriousness of the situation.
