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A Correct Understanding of the CCP Regime - Dr Li Wenliang Is Not a Whistleblower

Editor's note: Bo Yang's Popeye incident refers to a cartoon that Bo Yang translated where Popeye runs for president on an island. He was accused of undermining the KMT and was sentenced to 10 years.

Dr Li Wenliang is not a whistleblower.

Li shared an odd infection case (which he believed was SARS) with his colleagues in a private WeChat group to remind them to be vigilant of a possible outbreak. Doctors in Taiwan and China share this kind of information every day and nobody considers it to be whistleblowing.
Unfortunately, some in the group were politically sensitive and reported him to the authorities.

He was clearly a victim of #CCP’s strategy to maintain stability. His conduct was utterly irrelevant to political concerns. His case was not even comparable to Liu Xiaobo or Bo Yang's Popeye the Sailor Man incident in Taiwan.

Why does the CCP dub Dr Li Wenliang a whistleblower?

1) The Central Government shirked responsibility, leaving the blame for local and regional government officials.
For those with basic knowledge of the Chinese political system, it is not difficult to understand that the top-down pressure from Beijing to maintain stability is the root cause of concealing the #coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan City and then Hubei Province. If everyone shifts their focus to the reaction & grievances of Wuhan's authority, they will eventually forget political pressure from Central Government.

2) The Central Government used Dr Li to distract citizens from being aware of its control over their freedoms and lives.
The CCP is trying to sell the idea to the public that stringent autocratic rule is necessary to minimize variation in law enforcement among cities due to China's large size and population. As a result, the Chinese people will not consider the possibility of a different system of governance nor challenge the one-party rule by CCP.

Source: Wind Hong’s Facebook
https://bit.ly/2OKlRvH

#Whistleblower #LiWenliang #CCP

#Newspaper

Frontline Wuhan doctor, Ai Fen, silenced by CCP 1/2

In the early stages of the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan, Ai Fen, head of emergency care at the Wuhan Central Hospital was the first person to report the truth. At the time, she was reprimanded for “violating principles and not having organizational discipline by spreading rumours”. Thinking back she wondered, “What did I do wrong?” Ai regretted that she was not more outspoken at the early stages of the outbreak. She remained silent for three weeks after learning about this new mysterious illness, but she wished she had continued to raise the alarm.

Working at the frontline, Ai said she witnessed people dying in the vehicles that transported them to the hospital. Many people died in the emergency room without having been diagnosed and they were not included in the official death count. “I could not do anything apart from seeing more and more patients while the contagion radius expanded from Huanan seafood market to nearby areas. Many cases were clustered household infections,” Ai said.

Ai was the one who posted a report on an infected patient back in December in a doctors’ chat group. This was the post that made Dr. Li Wenliang raise the alarm on the outbreak in Wuhan. He was among eight whistleblowers who were targeted by state police for rumourmongering. She realized the gravity of the situation back then but could not warn others publicly about the virus. As the head of the emergency department, the best she could do was to ask everyone in the emergency ward to protect themselves by wearing masks, caps and sanitize their hands as much as possible.

One doctor suggested they should wear protective gowns. However, during a meeting with hospital administration they were told that doing so would cause too much panic. In the end, she could only ask emergency staff members to wear their protective gowns under their white lab coats. “This did not meet the safety standards, it was so ridiculous,” she said.

On 11 January, the first nurse at Wuhan Central Hospital succumbed to the virus. Ai immediately called for an emergency meeting with hospital officials. During the meeting, Ai was told to remove the words “viral pneumonia” from the report title. Several days later, an associate chief of staff said, “Let’s have some common medical sense, experienced doctors should not allow themselves to scare others to death.” She recalled the tremendous pressure, stress and regret she felt: “I kept thinking if the hospital leadership did not condemn me so harshly but would instead talk about the issue calmly under the presence of other respiratory experts at the early stage, maybe the whole situation would be a lot better now.”

Sources: Stand News, HKCNews, The Guardian

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#AiFen #Whistleblower #Censorship #FreedomOfSpeech #Wuhan #Coronavirus #LiWenLiang

Biased belief in CCP hurts the world: WHO is the accomplice 4/7

The screenshot on the left is the number that Tencent suddenly flashed (much higher than the official number). The screenshot on the right was the number that was corrected on the next day (that is, back to the official number). Although Tencent issued a formal statement that someone was tampering with its webpage, the same phenomenon occurred three times.

WHO has an office in China. Even though it cannot get the accurate actual death figures from CCP, it is impossible that they are not aware of the incident of whistle blower Li Wen-liang (note: one of the eight whistle blowing doctors) regarding CCP’s covering up on the epidemics. WHO has a direct part in the underestimation of the epidemic’s severity when they accept CCP’s official data without reservation.

Source: HKCNews
#CCP #Pandemic #Tencent #Whistleblower #LiWenLiang

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Virologist fled Hong Kong: I know how they treat whistleblowers

Dr. Li-meng Yan, a virologist in the University of Hong Kong, realized COVID-19 is transmittable between humans as early as Dec 2019. She believes that the Chinese government withheld that vital information at that time, costing millions of lives worldwide. Her supervisors from HKU, despite also being consultants in the W.H.O., did not do anything to stop this massive crisis.

Dr. Li fled to the US to reveal the truth. Right after she left Hong Kong, her family in mainland China was 'visited'; her work accounts and emails became unaccessible.

Anyone can be Dr. Li. Will you speak out when politics override conscience? Show your obedience to #tyranny or #strive for a democratic government, it is your choice now.

#Whistleblower #Coronavirvus
#FreedomOfSpeech #China #WHO

Watch full video at: https://video.foxnews.com/v/6170706702001#sp=show-clips

Further reading:
Summary: What has World Health Organization (WHO) said about coronavirus since 10 Jan, 2020?
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/17757

Anonymous Informant Delivered Information from Australia Social Media Groups to Hong Kong Police. Accusing the Groups Violating Chinese Law

Hong Kong's national security law claimed to be applicable to foreigners residing overseas. Details of two social media groups followed by thousands of Hongkongers in Australia have been delivered to HK's pro-Beijing Police Department by an anonymous informant, calling for its members to be "punished" for breaking the city's new National Security Law.

It is believed that such "crime reporting" to HK police was intended to create white terror among Chinese overseas. Such actions may violate Australian legislation regarding the freedom of speech, according to lawyers.

Source:
https://www.abc.net.au/radio/canberra/programs/pm/hong-kong-police-urged-to-punish-chinese-australians/12445076?fbclid=IwAR3Y61RqLqIjDElo4DdbnOMi1n3AidljxtuRqPEGsKEEtsSGZ0SZExYTiLk

https://www.sbs.com.au/language/cantonese/zh-hant/hong-kong-security-law-white-terror-in-australia?fbclid=IwAR3MT7IPjjWKTXmGyRhyoWFnMLhCMaa8XadeZpLbk5YdthXBGG_xnQGn15I

#Whistleblower #NationalSecurityLaw #WhiteTerror #HongKonger
#Netizens #FreedomOfSpeech

#FailedState
#Whistleblower of MTR construction scandal, “HK has become a lawless city”

Jason Poon Chuk-hung, Managing Director of China Technology Corporation Ltd (#CTC), is also known as the whistle-blower who exposed rebar-cutting and shoddy construction works connected to Sha Tin-Central link MTR project. On September 21, the High Court handed down a bankruptcy order to CTC.

Poon explained that CTC has been facing oppressions from multiple fronts after he blew the whistle putting the company in grave business and financial pressure: over 300 lawsuits were filed against CTC within a year, more than HK$12 million fee in relations to government projects were overdue, while police refused to investigate the report of over HK$20 million construction materials being stolen in Hung Hom Station construction site.

Poon sighed that “Hong Kong has become a lawless city”.

Source: Apple Daily #Sept21
#Oppression #MTRScandal #JasonPoon

https://hk.appledaily.com/local/20200921/2XBZVYJO45EYBB7D7GLQG3NDCE/

#LastYearToday
One Year Since the Death of #Covid19 #Whistleblower Dr. Li Wenliang in China

One year ago on Feb 6, 2020, Dr. Li Wenliang, an ophthalmologist in Wuhan, died of the coronavirus in China.

At the first epicenter of the coronavirus in China, he revealed news of the outbreak of #WuhanPneumonia on Chinese social media platform as early as on December 30, 2019. He was later arrested by the Chinese Communist Party government for "publishing false statements."

On February 1, 2020, he announced himself having contracted the coronavirus. The news of his death was covered up and announced only later by the Chinese authorities, in order to control the emotion of the population.

While the #CCP accused Dr.Li of being a "rumour monger" when he was alive, the Chinese authorities changed their narrative and praised him after his death.

Source: Stand News #Feb6

#CCPLies

#Genocide
'Some are just #psychopaths': Chinese detective in exile reveals extent of torture against #Uyghurs

//The ex-detective turned #whistleblower asked to be identified only as Jiang, to protect his family members who remain in China.

In a three-hour interview with CNN, conducted in Europe where he is now in exile, Jiang revealed rare details on what he described as a systematic campaign of torture against ethnic Uyghurs in the region's detention camp system, claims China has denied for years.

"Kick them, beat them (until they're) bruised and swollen," Jiang said, recalling how he and his colleagues used to interrogate detainees in police detention centers. "Until they kneel on the floor crying."

The methods included shackling people to a metal or wooden "tiger chair" -- chairs designed to immobilize suspects -- hanging people from the ceiling, sexual violence, electrocutions, and waterboarding. Inmates were often forced to stay awake for days, and denied food and water, he said.

"Everyone uses different methods. Some even use a wrecking bar, or iron chains with locks," Jiang said. "Police would step on the suspect's face and tell him to confess."

The suspects were accused of terror offenses, said Jiang, but he believes that "none" of the hundreds of prisoners he was involved in arresting had committed a crime. "They are ordinary people," he said.//

//...During the routine overnight operations, Jiang said they would be given lists of names of people to round up, as part of orders to meet official quotas on the numbers of Uyghurs to detain.

"It's all planned, and it has a system," Jiang said. "Everyone needs to hit a target."

If anyone resisted arrest, the police officers would "hold the gun against his head and say do not move. If you move, you will be killed."

He said teams of police officers would also search people's houses and download the data from their computers and phones.

Another tactic was to use the area's neighborhood committee to call the local population together for a meeting with the village chief, before detaining them en masse.

Describing the time as a "combat period," Jiang said officials treated Xinjiang like a war zone, and police officers were told that Uyghurs were enemies of the state.

He said it was common knowledge among police officers that 900,000 Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities were detained in the region in a single year.

Jiang said if he had resisted the process, he would have been arrested, too.

Inside the police detention centers, the main goal was to extract a confession from detainees, with sexual torture being one of the tactics, Jiang said.

"If you want people to confess, you use the electric baton with two sharp tips on top," Jiang said. "We would tie two electrical wires on the tips and set the wires on their genitals while the person is tied up."

He admitted he often had to play "bad cop" during interrogations but said he avoided the worst of the violence, unlike some of his colleagues.

"Some people see this as a job, some are just psychopaths," he said.

One "very common measure" of torture and dehumanization was for guards to order prisoners to rape and abuse the new male inmates, Jiang said.//

Read the full article:
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/10/04/china/xinjiang-detective-torture-intl-hnk-dst/index.html

Source: CNN #Oct4

#Torture #Rape #GangRape #HumanitarianCrisis #Chinazi #ConcentrationCamp #Xinjiang
#Astrocity