China Arrested Chinese Whistleblower Who Shares Video of nCoV Corpses in Wuhan
Chinese whistleblower in Wuhan, China who filmed 2019 novel coronavirus corpses reportedly got arrested by the authorities.
Chinese authorities broke into the home of the whistleblower after he took videos of dead bodies piling up at a crematorium and went viral on social media. The journalist Fang Bin, posted several videos showing what is happening on the ground in Wuhan.
After videos have gone viral, masked men in hazmat suits came in the night and knocked on Fang Bin’s door in Wuhan, China, demanding to put him in quarantine. Fang grew suspicious. He wasn’t sick, and none of them was a doctor.
According to the report of the Los Angeles Times, Fang refused to respond to police requests to leave his apartment so the authorities surrounded him home, blocking off any possible escape routes. Eventually, firefighters broke down his door.
Just days before he was taken into custody, Fang posted a video saying that the only reason authorities have not broken down his door is the fact that his videos had attracted too much attention.
“If they don’t come to me, they’ll turn to you,” he warned, adding that plainclothes police officers were monitoring his every move.
In a bid to ensure his safety, Fang had told his followers he would post a video every morning so people knew he was safe. Unfortunately, there’s no video was posted on Monday.
Fang was subsequently detained by authorities who warned him not to spread rumors before releasing him again. But Fang continued to post videos online leading to his arrest on Monday.
He is one of a growing number of people who have been detained and silenced over their coverage of the situation in Wuhan or their criticism of Beijing’s response to a crisis that has already killed more people than the 2003 SARS epidemic and infected over 40,000 people.
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