The four citizen journalists who revealed the truth about the epidemic in Wuhan have been strongly suppressed by the authorities, but the public has been concerned about the recent situation of these citizen journalists. (composite photo)
John Sudworth, a BBC correspondent in China, was forced to travel to Taiwan with his wife after being threatened and harassed by the Chinese Communist authorities. The incident sparked a public debate. Li Mu Yang, host of Epoch Times’ “News in Brief” program, said on the program that Chinese people who speak the truth are the most dangerous.
The BBC’s China correspondent John Sudworth recently traveled to Taiwan with his wife due to constant pressure from the Chinese Communist Party, which even sent people to follow him, according to media reports. His wife is the resident China correspondent for Irish public broadcaster RTE. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China said on April 1 that Sha Lei had arrived in Taiwan and was now in quarantine.
On April 2, Sha Lei published an article, “The Grim Reality of Reporting in China That Forced Me to Leave,” about the obstruction he encountered from the Chinese Communist government while in China, even before he took his family to the airport to leave the country, where plainclothes police were still watching.
In this regard, he said that this is only part of the “larger battle launched by the Chinese Communist Party on the international stage”, and the most dangerous people are Chinese citizens who tell the truth, and that many of the foreign media reports on Xinjiang are internal information from the Chinese Communist Party, and not from the wind.
Sha Lei also mentioned that there are still some brave and determined foreign journalists in China who are still committed to reporting the news; there are also a few prominent Chinese citizens who have taken great risks to find ways to circumvent censorship and tell the story of their own country, for example, most of what the world knows about Wuhan before the city was sealed came from citizen journalists, and they are now paying the price.
Previously, it was reported that Chinese citizen journalist Chen Qiushi was forcibly disappeared by the Chinese Communist Party authorities last year after he went to Wuhan to report on the epidemic. Recently, his friend Xu Xiaodong revealed that Chen Qiushi has returned to his parents’ home in Qingdao, but is under residential surveillance. Another citizen journalist, Fang Bin, who also revealed the real situation in Wuhan, is still missing and is of great concern to the outside world.
In addition, citizen journalist Zhang Zhan, who was sentenced to four years in prison for going to Wuhan to report the truth about the epidemic, has been transferred to Shanghai Women’s Prison.
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