A Chinese Citizen Journalist Covering Coronavirus Just Live-Streamed His Own Arrest

Vice ^ | Feb 28 2020, 10:17am | David Gilbert

[Zhang Fei]

A citizen journalist who was exposing the reality of life inside the Wuhan lockdown zone at the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak was detained by China’s security forces at his apartment in Wuhan — and the whole thing was captured on camera.

Li Zehua is a former employee of state-run television station CCTV who quit and went rogue earlier this month to report on the situation in Wuhan, and has posted videos from crematoriums, virology labs, and funeral homes inside the lockdown zone.

Li is the third citizen journalist to be detained by authorities in Wuhan in recent weeks and was live streaming on YouTube from his apartment in the city when unnamed officials arrived at his door and stopped the recording.

Li was also secretly streaming the scene to a friend via Skype, and that footage, which was subsequently uploaded to YouTube, shows the people searching through Li’s flat before that video too goes dark.

Li’s friend, who refers to himself as “stone,” confirmed to VICE News that Li was taken away by unidentified officers and has not been heard from since Wednesday. He added that Li knew he was being followed but said no one knows who took him, where he was being held — or why.

In recent days, China has been hailing the success of its efforts to stop the spread of coronavirus as infection numbers and the death rate begins to decline. But China’s security officials are showing no signs of slowing down in their efforts to silence dissenting voices critical of the regime and its response to the coronavirus.

As the coronavirus outbreak escalated in February, Li, who was working as a presenter for the state-run television channel CCTV7, suddenly quit his job and moved to Wuhan to document what was happening on the

[Zhang Fei]

Both Youtube and Skype are blocked in China, so it's clear he's found a way to block the Great Firewall of China.

[null and void]

Perhaps this: Coronavirus cluster at ‘work unit’ believed to be China’s cybersecurity agency in Beijing has something to do with improved Youtube and Skype access?

Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.

[Rurudyne]

The Chinese people are a wonderful people but the subset of that superset that is the ChiComs are wastes of space.

[Rurudyne]

Clarify just in case:

The Chinese people: superset

ChiComs : subset

[crusty old prospector]

VPN.

[TigerClaws]

Coronavirus bombshell as 14% of patients who recovered test positive again

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/coronavirus-bombshell-14-patients-who-21588972

[nuconvert]

I watched one of his videos a few days ago. Seemed like he was well aware they’d be coming for him.

[Rurudyne]

Isn’t it a retrovirus?

If so the it may be like HIV and be something that never really goes away.

Maybe in the future the disease will include some men breaking out in painful sores (Revelation 16)?

[Responsibility2nd]

Li Zehua.

Probably will never be heard from again.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

How long before Mr. Li dies of COVID-19?

[null and void]

Seemed like he was well aware they’d be coming for him.

Were that we could be so brave.

[nuconvert]

“Were that we could be so brave.”

Indeed. Something to think about

[KittyKares]

What would Bernie say?

[ConservativeMind]

This is the sort of stuff real journalists used to do.

Now, is is just a Chinese arrestee and Project Veritas.

[sauropod]

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[trebb]

“Maybe in the future the disease will include some men breaking out in painful sores (Revelation 16)?”

You mean like Shingles and Herpes?
We already have some of them...