China demands freedom of speech as doctor on front lines of coronavirus fight dies
Twenty-four hours after the death of the doctor who’d been arrested for warning people about the impending coronavirus epidemic, the sound of whistles, loud and clear, pierced the night’s darkness in the locked-down city of Wuhan.
The doctor’s death from the virus, announced early Friday, has sparked cries for freedom of speech across China, as well as fury and demands for more government accountability.to the National People’s Congress, demanding immediate implementation of China’s constitutional guarantee of the freedom of speech.
“We’ve become deformed without realizing, disciplined to the point where we don’t react like regular people,” wrote a blogger surnamed Chen.
One included a handwritten message: “The ophthalmologist couldn’t cure the world’s blindness. If there is another life, give up medicine and take up literature to open the people’s minds,” referencing Lu Xun’s decision to leave medicine and become a writer in hopes of rousing Chinese people to rise up against the Qing Dynasty.Two newspapers ran front-page stories demanding accountability for Li’s demise.
“We are all hiding at home. We eat, drink and wait to die,” Gao said. “We hope for international pressure and for Chinese people to fight for freedom of speech and push this government to do something.”
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