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"Governments in Asia and across the world are using the Coronavirus crisis to curtail civil liberties, extend surveillance to an unprecedented degree and seeking to limit freedom of the press, alarming press and civil rights protection organizations."
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Journalists have been reported missing/attacked in Ghana, Iran, Ethiopia, Croatia, Somalia, Chechnya, Libya, Zimbabwe, Jordan, El Salvador, Ukraine, Zambia and Croatia, per CPJ and Reporters Without Borders. Newspapers have been suspended in Iraq, Yemen, Morocco, Jordan and Iran.
In China, #LiZehua and #ChenQiushi are missing after reporting on the initial coronavirus outbreak. In US, Trump Trump has (how fittingly) attacked the Voice of America. Barr asked Congress to craft legislation to suspend habeas corpus.
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The #Chinese regime has muzzled citizens who have sought to reveal the true situation of the #CCPVirus outbreak that originated in #Wuhan.

Those suppressed include #Whistleblower doctors, citizen #Journalists, scholars, and business people. (Thread👇) theepochtimes.com/silenced-stori…
Dr. Li Wenliang

“Seven ‘SARS-like’ cases from the Huanan seafood market have been confirmed,” he wrote on Dec. 30, 2019 on @WeChatApp.

#LiWenliang was among the first people to publicize information about the #CCPVirus outbreak in #Wuhan.
The police statement said he had violated the law.

“Don’t go against the authorities, don’t wear masks, don’t make careless remarks,” hospital colleague Zhao Chen recalled a department director as saying, after #LiWenliang was summoned by police.
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A third citizen journalist in #Wuhan #LiZeHua has disappeared — and this time it was live-streamed vice.com/en_us/article/…
Li, 25, quit his job as a presenter for state-run television station CCTV and went to #Wuhan to cover the #coronavirus crisis from the ground. He was inspired by other citizen journalists like #Chenquishi and #Fangbin both of whom have also disappeared vice.com/en_us/article/…
Li knew he was being followed, and in another video posted hours before he was detained, he filmed himself in a high-speed chase in the streets of #Wuhan vice.com/en_us/article/…
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