Messages commemorating Li Wenliang and lambasting Chinese authorities have blanketed social media
“IF YOU KEEP being stubborn, fail to repent and continue illegal activities, you will be brought to justice.” So read the warning that police in Wuhan issued to Li Wenliang early in January. Mr Li, an ophthalmologist at a hospital in the city, had been summoned by officers after sharing information through WeChat, a social-media platform, about a new coronavirus that few people then knew about.
But screenshots of his message circulated widely and eventually came to the attention of his hospital bosses. They summoned him for a dressing-down, then ordered him to write a letter of self-criticism. The police called him in for questioning three days later and said he had “gravely disturbed social order”. Without naming them, the police publicly accused eight people of spreading “false information”. Mr Li was reportedly one of them.
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