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WUHAN RESIDENTS ASKING ACTIVIST

• “Help me sue the Chinese government.” Requests made in late March They withdrew their requests in April. They were threatened by Police.
• The Chinese authorities are clamping down as grieving relatives, along with activists, press the ruling Communist Party for an accounting of what went wrong in Wuhan, the city where the coronavirus killed thousands before spreading to the rest of China and the world.

LAWYERS HAVE BEEN WARNED

• Lawyers have been warned not to file suit against the government. Volunteers who tried to thwart the state’s censorship apparatus by preserving reports about the outbreak have disappeared.

MR YANG NOW LIVES IN NEW YORK (WAS DETAINED ONCE IN CHINA)

•  “They are worried that if people defend their rights, the international community will know what the real situation is like in Wuhan and the true experiences of the families there,”

CHINA WANTS TO HIDE THE TRUTH

•  The crackdown gives power to the state’s narrative that only China’s authoritarian system saved the country from a devastating health crisis.

CHINA SILENCES PEOPLE EVERY JUNE

• Each June, the authorities in Beijing silence family members of protesters who were killed in the 1989 crackdown on the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy movement.

ON WHAT CHARGE?

• Detained and accused of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble,” a vague charge that the government often uses against dissidents.
• China subsequently went on to block the Website.

WOMEN ARRESTED FOR PROTESTING HIGH VEGETABLE PRICES

• The police in Hubei, the province that includes Wuhan and was hardest hit by the outbreak, arrested a woman last month for organizing a protest against high vegetable prices.
• An official at a Wuhan hospital was removed from his post after he criticized the use of traditional Chinese medicine to treat coronavirus patients

SURVIVORS ASK FOR MONEY

• Say they want fair compensation for their losses and harsher punishment for officials.

NOT ALLOWED TO FORM GROUPS

•  In March, the police visited a Wuhan resident who had started a chat group of more than 100 people who lost relatives to the virus, according to two members of the group, one of whom shared a video of the encounter. The group was ordered to disband.

JUDICIARY IS ALSO CONTROLLED BY CCP

• With China’s judiciary tightly controlled by the central government, it was unclear whether Mr. Tan would get his day in court. Mr. Tan, who works in the city’s parks department. Articles about Mr. Tan have been censored on Chinese social media.

CONCLUSION

• “They spend so much time trying to control us,”.
• “Why can’t they use this energy to address our concerns instead?”

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