Gao Yu, a veteran Chinese media personality, tweeted today (April 16) that after several visits to hospitals, the doctors who saw her were questioned by the authorities, lamenting where she should seek medical treatment if she did not want to get into trouble with them.
Gao Yu tweeted today that she went to the hospital on July 22 last year for major surgery on her crushed left shoulder. Right after she was discharged from the hospital, the authorities approached the attending doctor and asked him to cooperate with the “case” investigation.
At the end of last year, she went for dental treatment, the dentist was again questioned by four people, one person asked, three people took notes.
Gao Yu asked, “Now I have to go to the hospital for a major surgery to replace my left shoulder with an artificial shaft, I would like to ask, does this constitute a ‘case’ again? What is the basis of the law?”
She lamented, “If I don’t want to get into trouble with the doctors who are treating people, where should I go for medical treatment?”
The news sparked outrage among netizens, who left messages saying.
“To say who you went out to dinner to see, there can be a reason to investigate. But to see a doctor, to investigate what? I want to ask if the medical expenses are not enough, they give to make up for it?”
“The wall country is not putting all the money and manpower into the people’s livelihood, science and technology, national strength, and protecting the land and environment. Instead, it is doing its best to destroy the land, persecute the people and extract benefits!”
“Gather physiological information…. . CCP is horrible…. The devil….”
“They (are) more diligent than your own relatives. Hey 。。。。。 Human rights ah”
Others suggested that Gao Yu go to 301 Hospital and “go directly to the director.”
Gao Yu, 77, was born in Chongqing and graduated from the Department of Language and Literature at Renmin University of China, majoring in literary theory. He worked for the China News Service and became deputy editor-in-chief of the Economic Weekly in 1989.
During the Tiananmen Square incident on June 4, the Economic Weekly was active in covering the pro-democracy movement in Beijing and was later suspended from publication. On the morning of June 3, 1989, Gao Yu was arrested by Beijing State Security. A year later, Gao Yu was released from Qincheng prison.
On November 9, 1994, the Beijing Intermediate Court sentenced Gao Yu to six years in prison for leaking state secrets. Neither Communist Party officials nor Gao Yu himself revealed what state secrets he had leaked.
After being imprisoned, Gao Yu was released on medical parole twice, in 1994 and 1996, and again on February 15, 1999, on medical parole.
On April 24, 2014, Gao Yu was arrested again by Beijing police, and the case was heard in secret on November 21, 2014. The authorities sentenced Gao Yu to seven years in prison and one year of deprivation of political rights for the crime of “illegally providing state secrets to foreign countries.
Amnesty International, Reporters Without Borders, the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, and the U.S. Department of State have all called on the Chinese Communist authorities to release Gao Yu immediately.
After the first verdict was handed down, Gao Yu appealed, and on November 26, 2015, the Beijing High Court changed the sentence from seven years to five years in the second trial. Upon Gao Yu’s own application and based on hospital documentation, the court decided to grant Gao Yu extra-prisoner status because of his serious illness.
On April 23, 2019, Gao Yu was officially released after completing his sentence.
Gao Yu has received several international awards in the field of journalism since the 1990s for exposing the evils of the time.
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